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January 16, 1822; married, October 3, 1843, Lydia Kilburn : removed to California, and died there, November 24, 1850. 4. William Tully, born January 13, 1825 ; married (first). December 6, 1849. 5. Mary Elizabeth, born June 13, 1826, died unmarried.
(VII) Myron Holley, son of Dr. Henry Fish, was born at Salisbury, Connecticut, Sep- tember 21, 1820, He was educated in the pub- lic schools. In 1854 he went to Illinois and en- gaged in business as a merchant and banker, at Rock Island, and died there, December 3, 1860. One of the last acts of his life was to vote for Abraham Lincoln for President. He married, August 25, 1845. Fanny Scoville Lee, born August 11. 1823, daughter of Elisha and Almira ( Scoville ) Lee. Children : Fanny Lee, married Major Edward P. Mckinney : Eliza- beth Julia, born April 26, 1850, died young ; Mary, March 24, 1853. died in infancy ; Myra Ruth, born September 30, 1856.
(The Corning Line).
(I) Samuel Corning, the immigrant, was born in England. and came to Salem, Massa- chusetts. as early as 1638, and was admitted a freeman June 2, 1641. An acre of land was granted him, in 1641, for sowing hemp. He removed to Wenham, Massachusetts, His wife was admitted to the church April 5, 1640. He was afterward prominent in Beverly. He was on the committee, May 15. 1665, equivalent to the first board of selectmen, though the town was not incorporated until 1668. He was selectman in 1670-74-75-77, and perhaps in other years : collector of taxes in 1676, ensign in 1667 and afterward: on a committee to settle the boundary with Wenham in 1682; licensed to keep an ordinary in 1670; assistant of the colony in 1670: on various committees to lay out land for the town. He had many grants in 1671 and afterward. His widow Elizabeth survived him. His estate was divided among his children Samuel, Elizabeth and Re- member, and his widow March -, 1694-95. Children : Remember, baptized May 3. 1640; Samuel, mentioned below : Eliza, or Elizabeth, June 4. 1643.
( II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( I ) Corn- ing. was baptized March 14. 1640-41, and died May 1I, 1714, aged seventy-three years. He married Hannah Batchelder. who died Febru- ary 17. 1718, aged seventy-two years, daugh- ter of John Batchelder. Children, born at Beverly: Samuel, June 1, 1670; John, 1676;
Joseph, mentioned below ; Daniel, September 17, 1686.
(III) Joseph, son of Sammuel (2) Corning, was born in Beverly, November 19, 1679, and died in 1718. He removed from Beverly to Norwich, Connecticut, and settled in the Pres- ton Society. He married, January 17, 1702-03, Rebecca Woodbury. Children : Hannah, born October 6, 1703 : Joseph, May 22, 1707 ; Josiah, mentioned below: Nehemiah, April 25. 1717.
(\\') Josiah, son of Joseph Corning, was born in 1709, and died February 27, 1760. He married, January 10. 1733, Jane Andrews, of Norwich, who died March 21, 1803, aged eighty-eight years. Children, born in Preston : Sarah, October 13. 1734: Ezra, mentioned be- low : Daniel, July 18, 1739 ; Lydia, October 4, 1741 : Elisha. July 25, 1745: John. November 23. 1746; Ephraim, died at sea; Polly, or Mary. May 22, 1749; Ann, April 22, 1751 ; Asa. December 3. 1753, resided at Hartford : Ephraim, 1755.
(V) Ezra, son of Josiah Corning, was born at Preston, April 10, 1737. He was the first of the family to come from Preston to Hart- ford. He was a shoemaker by trade, and kept a grocery at Hartford. He lived near the site of the Governor Toucey house. He married (first ) Mary, daughter of Captain Thomas Hopkins; (second ) Catherine Hall; (third) Hannah Benton. Children : Mary, died young ; Huldah, married, 1786, Miller Fish, of Hart- ford ( see Fish ) : Daniel, married -- Vib- bert : Ezra Jr. Children of second wife : George, Charles. Catherine, William: Henry, died young : Henry, resided at Harford.
(The Peabody Line).
The surname Peabody is of ancient English origin. The generally accepted explanation of the origin of this name is given by the English Heraldry office as from a leader of one of the tribes, a man of wealth and influence named Peabodie, who by his prowess and exertions in the battle on the river Douglass aided in ex- pelling the northern Savon invaders, and, hav- ing in his possession, the trophy taken by his ancestors from a Roman officer at the time Oueen Boadicea. of Briton, was subdued by Emperor Nero, the coat-of-arms was confirm- ed with additions by King Arthur. This an- cient Roman coat-of-arms is described : Paty per fesse nebule. gules, azure. two suns proper with a gare. Crest : A scroll. The family motto is : Murus acneus conscientia sana. Boadie.
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who led the Britons in the battle with the Romans, escaped to the mountains of Wales. The word Pea, meaning a hill or mountain, was added to the name, and by it the tribe was known for centuries. The tribe maintained a separate existence for five hundred years. Upon the helmet and armor of the Roman officer was a Roman badge of honor and distinction, con- sisting of two suns proper in bordure. There was also a miniature likeness of the Empress Poppaea, wife of Nero. The spelling Pay- body, Paybodie, Pabodie and various other forms are found.
(I) John Peabody, the American immigrant, came to this country from England, about 1636, and settled in the Plymouth colony, New England. His name appears on the list of freeman March 7, 1636-37. He had grants of land at Duxbury. His will was dated July, 1640, and was proved April 27, 1667. He married Isabel Children: I. Thomas, men- tioned in the will. 2. Francis, came, in 1635, in the ship "Planter"; ancestor of most of the Essex county families. 3. William, mentioned below. 4. Annis, married, 1639, John Rowe (or Rouse).
(II) William Peabodie, or Pabodie, son of John, was born in England, in 1620, and died December 13, 1707, at Little Compton, Rhode Island. He married at Plymouth, December 26, 1644, Elizabeth, daughter of Jolin and Priscilla ( Mullins) Alden. She was born in Plymouth, and died at Little Compton, Rhode Island, May 31, 1717. As her parents came in the "Mayflower," her descendants are eligi- ble to the Society of Mayflower Descendants. William Peabody spent his youth in Duxbury. In various documents he is called yeoman, boatman, planter, and, in 1681, wheelwright. He was also a land surveyor. He bought land of John Holland and Hopestill Foster, of Dor- chester, November 1, 1648, and other lands at Mattapoisett and Sepecan. He removed to Little Compton, Rhode Island, about 1684. He was deputy to the general court, from Dux- bury, in 1654-63-68-71 to 1682. He was ad- mitted a freeman June 5, 1651. His will was dated May 13. 1707. Children: John, born October 4, 1645; Elizabeth, April 2, 1647; Mary, August 7, 1648: Mercy and Martha, January 2, 1649; Priscilla, January 15, 1653; Saralı, Angust 7, 1656; Ruth, June 19, 1658; Rebecca, October 15, 1660; Hannah, October 15, 1662 : William, November 24. 1664; Lydia, April 3, 1667.
(III) William (2), son of William (1) Peabody, was born at Duxbury, November 24, 1664. He removed with his father to Little Compton, and spent the rest of his days there. He was a farmer. He was admitted a free- man, May 1, 1722, in Massachusetts. He died September 17, 1744. His will is dated August 7, 1743. He married (first) Judith
born 1669, died July 26, 1714; (second) Eliz- abeth -; (third) Mary ( Morgan) Starr. Children, born at Little Compton : Elizabeth, April 10, 1698; John, February 9, 1700; Will- iam, February 21, 1702; Rebecca, February 29, 1704; Priscilla, March 4, 1706; Judith, January 23, 1708; Joseph, July 26, 1710; Mary, April 4, 1712, married, November 26, 1736, Nathaniel Fish ( see Fish) ; Benjamin, Novem- ber 25, 1717.
Lawrence Clinton, the first of CLINTON the name in New Haven, Con- necticut, was born in 1679, died in 1757-58. He settled in what is now North Haven, Connecticut, in 1704, and became a member of the Center Church, at New Haven, that same year, and was one of six men who united in forming an Episcopal Society in North Haven, in 1723. By occupation he was a mason. He married, about 1700, Mary Brockett ; (second) Elizabeth (Barnes). Chil- dren of first wife: Elizabeth, married, January 20, 1725-26, James Bishop; Abigail; Mary, married, October 21, 1725, Isaac Griggs ; Lydia ; Sarah; Anne, and Phebe. Children of second wife: Lawrence, January 1, 1737; John, born April 9. 1740.
(I) Shubael Clinton, possibly a brother of Lawrence Clinton, probably came with him to New Haven from Massachusetts, and was doubtless born in England, as early as 1690. He married Elizabeth He joined the Episcopal church, at West Haven, and this religious affiliation is almost positive proof of English birth. Shubael, his wife Elizabeth and six children were baptized in the Episcopal church, at West Haven, in 1734. Children : Elizabeth, married, June, 1737, Eliphalet Ste- vens; Mercy ; Mary ; Shubael, died in the serv- ice in the French and Indian war (p. 105, vol. ix, Conn. Hist. Society French and Indian War Rolls), he was in the Seventh Company, First Regiment, and was reported dead Octo- ber 13, 1756, he served under Captain David Baldwin, of Milford (Jesse, Henry, Joseph and John Clinton were also in the French and
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Indian wars), in the inventory of his estate an item appears, "for service in his country's cause, 7 pounds"; Henry, mentioned below.
(II) Henry, son of Shubael Clinton, was born in 1727, probably at New Haven, and died April 1, 1814, at North Colebrook, Con- necticut. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, in Captain Joseph Woodruff's com- pany, of Milford, and, in 1757, marched to the relief of Fort William Henry (p. 220, vol. ix, French and Indian War Rolls). In 1790 he was living in Litchfield county. He settled at Barkhamstead, Connecticut, and afterward located at New Milford, Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1763. He married, in 1760, at Derby, Rachel Pierson. Children: 1. Elijah P., baptized at Derby, April, 1762, died young. 2. Henry, 1765, at New Milford. 3. Sheldon, born in 1767, at New Milford. 4. Lyman, mentioned below. 5. Clarissa, born 1780, at New Milford ; married, 1799, Ira Andrews.
(III) Lyman, son of Henry Clinton, was born at New Milford, April 3, 1771, died April 30, 1855, at Newark Valley, New York. He moved from Colebrook, with his family, to Newark, Tioga county, New York, in 1831, after visiting Newark Valley the previous year and buying six hundred acres of land, which he later shared with his sons. He married Mehitable Pease, who died at Newark Valley, September 7, 1834, aged fifty-seven years. Chil- dren : 1. Lyman, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born April 2, 1800, died December 6, 1858, at Ithaca, New York; married Rachel Knapp. 3. Henry, born September 2, 1802; married Mary 4. Mehitable, July 24, 1805, died September 29, 1868, at Newark Valley, unmarried. 5. Sheldon, born October 20, 1807; died June 22, 1876, at Williamsport, Pennsyl- vania ; married, in June, 1840, Elinor Ogden. 6. George, born June 14, 1809, died April 17, 1853, at Newark Valley. 7. Eli, June 25, 1811, died August, 1892. 8. Rhoda, born June 12, 1814, died March 9, 1875: married, in 1837, Albert Williams.
(IV) Lyman (2), son of Lyman (1) Clin- ton, was born May 7, 1798, at Barkhamstead, Connecticut ; died July 4, 1873, at Newark Valley, New York. He removed with his father from Colebrook, Connecticut, to New- ark Valley, in 1831. His farm was a mile and a half east of Newark Valley. By trade he was a cooper. In politics he was a Democrat. He married, November 1, 1821, Miranda Stone, born December 29, 1801, at Sharon, Connecti-
cut. died February 1, 1882, at Newark Valley, New York. Children, born at Colebrook and Newark Valley: 1. Royal Wells, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, born April 10, 1824, died January 26, 1899. 3. Annis M., born April 6, 1825. died April 20, 1885; married James Ayres. 4. Julian, born May 6, 1826, died Sep- tember 30, 1857; married Mary Strong. 5. Stephen P., born November 7, 1827, died Janu- ary 3. 1881. 6. Corinda, born February 8, 1830, died April 25, 1832. 7. Lucy, born Au- gust 27, 1831 ; married Myron Hayford. 8. Oliver P., born June 11, 1833. 9. Amaryllis P., born February 23, 1837, died October 30, 1898; married Edgar Boyce. 10. Gilbert S., born June 1, 1840, died April 20, 1851. II. Edwin V., born May 9, 1841 ; married, No- vember 16, 1861, Ellen Plasted. 12. Alvira, twin of Edwin V., died April 20, 1842. 13. Alvira M., born October 11, 1842, died Au- gust 7, 1872; married Porter Moore.
(V) Royal Wells, son of Lyman (2) Clin- ton, was born at Colebrook, Connecticut, March 1, 1823, died at Newark Valley, March 20, 1895. He was educated in the public schools, and from his youth followed farming for a calling. From 1850 to 1865 he lived on a farm a mile and a half east of Newark Valley, and from that year to 1895 in the village of New- ark Valley. He built the first steam sawmill operated in New York, and was extensively interested in the lumber business for many years. In religion he was a Methodist, and for forty years was superintendent of the Sun- day school. He was a director of the South Central Railroad Company from 1868 to 1895, and a trustee of the Tioga National Bank, of Owego. He was generous and public spirited. He gave a handsome school building to the village of Newark Valley. In politics he was a Republican. For many years he represented the town in the board of supervisors. In 1891 he represented the district in the state assem- bly and served on important committees. He married, at Newark Valley, May 16, 1844, Anna C. Knapp, who was born at New Marl- borough, Massachusetts, September 7, 1825, died at Newark Valley, June 13, 1882. Chil- dren : 1. Ella J., born April 20, 1845 : married, November 22, 1865, Morris Elwell, born Au- gust 3, 1840, died December 31, 1894; chil- dren : i. Cora, born August 20, 1867, married (first), October 27, 1886, at Scranton, Penn- sylvania, Grant Dilley, married (second), Feb- ruary 17, 1898, A. L. Morrison; ii. Clinton,
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born April 14, 1869, married, January 30, 1895, Mary C. Lawrence; iii. Anna C., born March 20, 1879, married, September, 1901, Harry Miller. 2. Austin W., mentioned below. 3. Arthur G., born March 3, 1856; married, June 15, 1880, Addie Roys, born April 27, 1858; children : Edith K., born August 8, 1881 ; Leonard, June 22, 1885 ; Ruth, May 15, 1892.
(VI) Austin W., son of Royal Wells Clin- ton, was born March 11, 1850, at Newark Valley, New York. He attended the public schools of his native town, the Cazenovia Seminary, the Wyoming Seminary, and Cor- nell University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1872, with the degree of Bach- elor of Science. From 1872 to 1874 he taught natural science in Wyoming Seminary. He then when abroad, and upon his return, in 1875, he located at Harford, New York, and engaged in the lumber business and operated a sawmill. In 1882-83 he was supervisor of the town of Harford, and for ten years was postmaster there. He removed to Galeton, Pennsylvania, where he had lumber interests. Since 1895 he has been in the lumber business in Binghamton, and has made his home in that city. He is a director of the Tioga National Bank, at Owego; of the People's Bank, in Binghamton ; treasurer of the Lestershire Lum- ber and Box Company, and president of Lester- shire Spool and Manufacturing Company. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Meth- odist. and is a trustee of Tabernacle Church, of Binghamton, New York.
He married. October 13, 1876, Alice Davis, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, daughter of David R. Davis. Children : 1. Emelius, born July 3. 1878, at Harford Mills, New York ; died May 28, 1892. 2. ]larry Davis, born November 7, 1879, at Harford; entered Cornell University, in the class of 1903; was a sergeant in the British army, in South Africa, in 1901 ; engi- neering in Ecuador, South America, in 1902 ; was in Cuba in 1903; at present manager of the Leicestershire Spool & Manufacturing Company ; married, June 15, 1907, Elizabeth Newcomb, born April 7, 1886; children : Aus- tin W., born August 15, 1908; Harry Davis Jr., July 16, 1910. 3. Louis Royal, born July 4, 1881, at Ilarford Mills; entered Cornell University, in the class of 1901 ; married, Sep- tember 27, 1904. Jessica MI. Ostrom, horn May 20. 1880 : child: Royal Duane, born Jannary 2, 1910. 4. Helen Bessie, born April 15, 1883. at llarford ; graduate of Vassar College, class
of 1905. 5. Caroline Mabel, born March II, 1889, at Galeton, Pennsylvania : graduate of Vassar College, in 1911.
The Bliss family is believed to be BLISS the same as the Blois family of Normandy, gradually modified in spelling to Bloys, Blysse, Blisse, and, in Amer- ica, to Bliss. The family has been in England, however, since the Norman conquest. but is not numerous and never appears to have been. The coat-of-arms borne by the Bliss and Bloys families is the same: Sable, a bend vaire, be- tween two fleurs-de-lis or. Crest: A hand holding a hundle of arrows. Motto: Semper sursam. The ancient family tradition repre- sents the seat of the Bliss family in the south of England, and belonging to the yeomanry. though at various times some of the family were knighted.
(I) Thomas Bliss, progenitor of the Amer- ican family, lived at Belstone parish, Devon- shire, England. Little is known of him ex- cept that he was a wealthy landowner, and was a Puritan, persecuted on account of his faith, by civil and religious authorities, under the direction of the infamous Archbishop Laud, that he was maltreated, impoverished and im- prisoned. He was reduced to poverty and his health ruined by the persecution of the Church of England. He is supposed to have been born about 1555-60, and he died about 1636. When the parliament of 1628 assembled, Puritans or Roundheads, as they were called by the Cava- liers or Tories, accompanied the members to London. Two of the sons of Thomas Bliss, Jonathan and Thomas, rode from Devonshire on iron-grey horses, and remained for some time-long enough, anyhow, for the king's officers and spies to mark them, and from that time they, with others who had gone on the same errand to the capital, were marked for destruction. The Bliss brothers were fined a thousand pounds for their non-conformity, and thrown into prison, where they lay for weeks. Even their venerable father was dragged through the streets with the greatest indignities. On another occasion the officers of the high commission seized all their horses and all their shecp, except one poor ewe, that in its fright ran into the house and took refuge under a bed. At another time the three sons of Thomas Bliss, with a dozen Puritans, were led through the market place, in Okehampton, with ropes around their necks and also fined
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heavily. On another occasion Thomas was ar- rested and thrown into prison with his son Jonathan, who eventually died from the hard- ships and abuse of the churchmen. At an- other time the king's officers seized the cattle of the family and most of their household goods, some of which were highly valued for their age and beauty, and as heirlooms, having been for centuries in the family. In fact, the family being so impoverished, by constant per- secution, was unable to pay the fines and secure the release of both father and son from prison, so the young man remained and the father's fine was paid. At Easter the young man re- ceived thirty-five lashes. After the father died, his widow lived with their daughter, whose husband, Sir John Calcliffe, was a communi- cant of the Church of England, in good stand- ing. The remnant of the estate was divided among the three sons, who were advised to go to America to escape further persecution .. Thomas and George feared to wait for Jona- than, who was ill in prison, and they left Eng- land in the fall of 1635 with their families Thomas, son of Jonathan, and grandson of Thomas Bliss, remained in England until his father died, and then he also came to Amer- ica, settling near his uncle of the same name. At various times the sister of the immigrants sent to the brothers boxes of shoes, clothing and articles that could not be procured in the colonies, and it is through her letters, long pre- served in the original but now lost, that knowl- edge of the family was handed down from generation to generation. Children of Thomas : Jonathan, died in England, in 1635-36 ; Thomas, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, married Sir John Calcliffe, of Belstone : George, born 1591, died August 31, 1687, settled in Lynn, Massachu- setts, and later at Sandwich, in that province, and at Newport, Rhode Island : Mary.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas ( 1 ) Bliss, was born in England, at Belstone, in Devon- shire, about 1585. He married in England, about 1612, Margaret -. It is believed that her name was Margaret Lawrence, and that she was born about 1594. She is said, by good authority, to have been a good looking woman, with a square chin, indicating great strength of character. After the death of her husband, which took place about 1639, she managed the affairs of the family with great prudence and good judgment. She was ener- getic, efficient and of great intellectual capacity. Her eldest daughter married Robert Chapman.
of Saybrook, Connecticut, April 29, 1642, and settled in Saybrook, where Thomas Bliss Jr. also settled, removing to Springfield, Massa- chusetts, on account of the malarial fevers then prevalent in Connecticut. She sold her property in Hartford and purchased a tract a mile square in Springfield, in the south part of the town, on what is now Main street. Margaret Bliss died August 29, 1684, full forty years after the death of her husband, and nearly fifty after she emigrated. Children : Ann, born in England ; Mary, married Joseph Parsons : Thomas ; Nathaniel ; Lawrence ; Sam- uel, born 1624; Sarah, born in Boston, in 1635 ; Elizabeth, 1637, at Boston, married Myles Morgan, founder of Springfield ; Hannah, born at Hartford, in 1639: John, mentioned below.
(III) John, son of Thomas (2) Bliss, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1640, died September 10, 1702. He removed to North- ampton, in 1672, and was there through his sister's trial for witchcraft. He removed to Springfield, in 1685, and soon afterward to Longmeadow, where he spent the remainder of his life. He married, October 7, 1667, Patience Burt, born August 18, 1645, died October 25, 1732, daughter of Henry Burt, of Springfield. Children: John, born September 7, 1669; Nathaniel. January 26, 1671 ; Thomas. mentioned below : Joseph, 1676; Hannah, No- vember 16, 1678; Henry. August 15, 1681 ; Ebenezer. 1683.
(IV) Thomas (3), son of John Bliss, was born at Longmeadow, October 29, 1673, died there, August 12, 1758. He married, May 27, 1714, Mary, daughter of William and Mar- garet Macranny. She was born November 2, 1690, died March 30, 1761. Children, born at Longmeadow: Mary, December 4, 1715; Thomas, May 3, 1719: Henry, December 5. 1722, died young ; Henry, mentioned below.
(V) Henry, son of Thomas (3) Bliss, was born August 21, 1726, at Longmeadow ; died February 7-8, 1761. He was a farmer at Long- meadow. He married Ruby Brewer, of Leb- anon (published December 22, 1749). The widow and children removed, in 1765, to Leb- anon, Connecticut, and afterward to Bernards- ton, Massachusetts. Children: Thomas, born December 7, 1750; Solomon, November 8, 1751 ; Calvin, mentioned below : Henry, June 7. 1757 ; Huldah, July 2, 1759.
(\']) Calvin, son of Henry Bliss, was born at Coleraine, Massachusetts, May 14, 1754. died in October, 1849. He was a farmer at
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Bernardston, and, about 1800, removed to Shoreham, Addison county, Vermont. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Ephraim Chapin's company, Colonel Ruggles Wood- bury's regiment, August 17, 1777, to Novem- ber 29, and is said to have held a commission in Washington's army. He married, June 26, 1777, Ruth, born May II, 1756-57, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah ( Field) Janes, of North- field, Vermont. Children: Ruby, born 1778; Philomela, June 11, 1782; Huldah; Solomon, mentioned below : Martha, September 15, 1788; Ruth, June 10, 1790; Mehitable, May 17, 1792 ; Calvin, May 14, 1794 ; Henry, March 27, 1796; Oliver Brewster, July 6, 1799.
(VII) Solomon, son of Calvin Bliss, was born April 9, 1786, died at Willet, New York, June 6, 1861. He settled at Preston, Chenango county, New York. He married, January I, 1808, Anna Packer, born at Guilford, Ver- mont, June 30, 1786, died at Henderson, New York, January 14, 1866. Children: Eunice P., born July 28, 1809; Amanda P., July 5, 1813, died young ; Lydia J., January 11, 1815; Ruth, January 11, 1817, died young ; Joshua P., at Preston, April 29, 1818; Ruth C., July 17, 1820; Calvin J., mentioned below ; Ira G., July 27, 1824.
(VIII) Calvin J., son of Solomon Bliss, was born May 22, 1822, at Preston, New York, and settled in Willet, Cortland county, New York. He married, September 18, 1850, Bet- sey A. Landers, of Willet. Children : Charles Emery, mentioned below ; Cora L., born Sep- tember 9. 1870, at Binghamton, died August 9, 1871.
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