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Addison L. was born July 7, 1843. He was educated in the common schools, Lowville Academy, the Normal School at Albany, Eastman's Commercial Col- lege at Poughkeepsie, and afterward en- gaged for some years in school-teaching. He married Mary K. Paris, daughter of
John M. Paris, in January, 1871. He was Supervisor of the town in 1878, and was three times re-elected, and was president of the village two years.
Marinus W. Clark was born October 2, 1845. He died suddenly at Low- ville, on the 4th of March, 1865, in the twentieth year of his age, while attend- ing school at the academy.
DOCTOR JOHN WHITING.
John Whiting was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, August 24, 1790. He was the fourth son and seventh child of John and Sylvia (Loomis) Whiting. His early life was passed in the vicinity of his birth- place, and in teaching for a time in the town of North East, Duchess county, N. Y., in the year 1809. In 1811, he was en- gaged in the study of medicine with Dr. Truman Wetmore, and afterward with Dr. Jesse Carrington, and received his medical diploma from the Connecticut Medical Society on the 8th of Novem- ber, 1813, signed by Mason F. Cogswell, President, and Jesse Carrington and Warren B. Fowler, Committee for the county of Litchfield.
Late in the spring of 1815, he came on horseback from his native place to Den- mark, Lewis county, where his oldest brother, Abner, had settled thirteen years before. Here he engaged in the practice of medicine, and also in school- teaching for the first six years, riding and making professional calls in the in- terim between school hours, and in cases of urgency, leaving his school in the care of the older pupils, while he at-
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tended to the more pressing demands of his patients.
He was never married, never actively engaged in political contests, but was for many years a prominent member of and exhorter in the M. E. church. Among the licenses given him, one is signed by John Dempster in 1834. He
had striking evidence. He was loved by his pupils and honored by their par- ents. * * * His practice in medicine rapidly increased, and he often rode the white horse on which he came into the county through the whole night, over the hills and through the roads and valleys of Denmark, Harrisburgh and Pinckney, to visit his patients, returning to his school in the morning, and after its close repeating his nocturnal ride. At length
[DR. JOHN WHITING.]
greatly aided the societies, both at Co- penhagen and at Pinckney, where he for some time resided on a farm managed by his brother Samuel, in erecting suit- able buildings for worship. He was sur- geon of the regiment organized in the county, or the part of the county in which he lived.
One of his pupils wrote as follows of him :-
" He was an apt teacher, and a strict disciplinarian of which the writer has
the calls for a doctor became so fre- quent that he found it necessary to de- vote his entire time to the practice of his profession. He was very successful as a physician, and accumulated proper- ty rapidly. He was of a philosophical turn of mind, well versed in history and the current topics of the day, a good and interesting conversationalist, select in his language, and minute in his de- scriptions. * * * According to my best recollections, he continued in the active practice of his profession ten or twelve years, and for several years after that was often called as council in diffi- cult and dangerous cases."
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For the greater part of his life he was a member of the families of his brothers Abner and Samuel. In the year 1870, he went to live in the family of Frank- lin Whiting, the son of his nephew, Harvey M., where he remained until his death, which occurred at Clark's Cor- ners, in the town of Denmark, Feb. 17, 1881, at the age of 90 years, 5 months and 23 days.
HARVEY M. WHITING.
Abner Whiting, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in the town of Colebrook, Conn., May 24, 1779. His parents were John and Sylvia (Loomis) Whiting, and he was the oldest in a family of fourteen children.
His genealogical record is believed to be established as follows: He was the son of John Whiting, born July 24, 1758, who was the son of John Whiting, born Nov. 23, 1720, who was the son of Ben- jamin Whiting, the tenth and youngest child of Rev. Samuel Whiting, Jr., who was born in England in 1633, and brought to Lynn, then called Saugus, Mass., by his father, Rev. Samuel Whiting, in June, 1636.
Rev. Samuel Whiting was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng., November 20, 1597. His father. John Whiting, was mayor of that city in the year 1600, and also in 1608, and his brother, John, held the same office in 1655. It appears that the names of John and Samuel have con- tinued in the family for three or more centuries; that of the former being found to have been in every generation to the present date. Samuel Whiting,
brother to Abner, who came to Lewis county in 1824, and settled in Pinckney, dying Feb. 7, 1874, was the last repre- sentative of this name in this branch of the family.
Abner Whiting came to the vicinity which is now the town of Denmark, Lewis county,-then a part of the town of Lowville and Oneida county,-in the fall of 1801, and purchased a farm, pay- ing for it and receiving a receipt therefor, his deed not being given until the 14th of June following. He married Asenath, the daughter of John Scott Clark, in the fall of 1804. He died January 7, 1866, and his wife February 18, 1861. Their children were twelve in number, two of whom died in early infancy. The rec- ord of the others is as follows :--
Roxy, born July 13, 1805, died Dec. 13, 1839; Harvey M .; Lovina, born De- cember 21, 1808, died December 14, 1829; Melinda, born July 31, 1812, died March 19, 1881 ; Sylvia, born May 11, 1814, died March 26, 1834; Arline, born May 30, 1816, died April 30, 1882 ; Asenath, born January 24, 1818; Susan, born February 17, 1821, died June 15, 1858 ; John Clark, born March 10, 1823, died July 31, 1854; Huldah, born April 14, 1828, died September 4, 1830.
Of these children, Asenath married Avery Allen, of Harrisburgh, in Octo- ber, 1836, in which town she now (1883) resides, as do also her grandchildren, and only descendants, the children of Newton Stoddard.
Arline married Ira Hodge, in 1834, and in 1846, removed to Dodge county, Wisconsin, where she died, and in which State her two surviving children still
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live-Charles C. M., near Oak Centre, and Sidney J., in Hartford, Washington county.
Harvey M. Whiting, the second of these children, was born in the town of Denmark, April 14, 1807, where he has passed his life. He married Louisa, daughter of John Clark, Ist., January 4,
John Kent, born March 4, 1870; Fos- ter S., born April 17, 1872 ; Una L., born November 24, 1874.
Mary A. married Ashbel S. Humph- rey, of Harrisburgh, April 22, 1863. Their children were as follows :-
Frankie J., born April 29, 1864; Henry G., born July 2, 1866; Harvey W., born
[HARVEY M. WHITING.]
1838. His children and descendants are as follows :-
Franklin M., born November 21, 1838; Abigail Janette, born October 1, 1840, died June 26, 1851 ; Mary A., born April 13, 1843 ; Anna E., born April 13, 1846; John H., born October 28, 1850, died January 2, 1852.
Franklin M., married Ophelia North Wemple, January 13, 1869, and had chil- dren as follows :-
March 12, 1871 ; Bessie L., born June 7, 1872.
WILLIAM HARTWELL, JR.
During the Revolutionary war two brothers of the name of Hartwell came from England to America to aid in sub- duing the Rebels. Both were officers in the British army. At the close of the war, one of the brothers returned to England, but the other, choosing to re-
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main in America, settled in New York, where he married an English lady of the name of Mary Cable. They had nine children, of whom William Hartwell was the oldest. He married Elizabeth Cooper, daughter of William Cooper. They were of French descent and lived in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
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William Hartwell, Sr., was a soldier in the War of 1812, and after his death his widow received the soldier's land bounty. He died Sept. 18, 1845, aged 68 years. Elizabeth, his wife, died Jan. 6, 1871, aged 92.
Their children were Ransom, born in 1797, died in 1850; Hannah, born in
[WILLIAM HARTWELL, JR.]
William Hartwell settled in Duchess county, N. Y., and came to the Black River country in 1804. His family then consisted of four children-Ransom, Han- nah, Morris and Abigail. The country was then in its infancy, and they were among the first settlers in the town of Denmark. Six children were added to their family after coming to Denmark- William J., Laura, James, Almon, Charles, and Benjamin.
1799, died April 3, 1810; Morris, born July 18, 1801, died August 25, 1880 ; Abigail L., born July 12, 1803 ; William, Jr .; Laura, born July 27, 1808; James, born in 1810; Almon N., born in 1812; Charles S., born in 1814; Benjamin, born December 11, 1817, died January 25, 1881.
William Hartwell, Jr., the first child born to them after coming to this coun- try, was born in Denmark Sept. 27. 1806,
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where he was educated and where he has always lived. He began life first as a mechanic, which occupation he after- ward relinquished for farming. A man of sound common sense and trusted by his townsmen, he has held numerous offices of the town, scarcely a year pass- ing since he attained his majority that he has not filled some official position. He was at one time nominated and elected sheriff on the Republican ticket, but lost the office through some illegality in the returns in one election district. On the 25th of October, 1854, he married E. Catherine Squire, daughter of Dr. Charles Squire, who was for nearly sixty years a physician in Denmark. He was the son of Stoddard Squire, an Englishman by birth, who, on the 24th of October, 1781, married a lady from France by the name of Theadocius French, by whom he had four children-Charles, born Nov. 5, 1783; John G., born May 5, 1785 ; Fanny, born June 19, 1788, and Truman, born May 27, 1791. Doctor Charles Squire was born in Duchess county, studied medi- cine with Dr. Willoughby, of Newport, attended the Medical College at Fairfield, where he received his diploma, and came to Denmark in 1810. He was a surgeon in the army in the War of 1812. He married Eliza Evens, of Fairfield, N. Y., January 15, 1814. They had two chil- dren, Charles D., born November 23, 1815, and E. Catherine, born January 24, 1824. He lived a useful life, and died in Denmark, September 15, 1867.
The children of Wm. Hartwell, Jr., are : Mary Eliza, born April 9, 1858, married Richard C. Otis; Ada E., born Nov. 9, 1859; Walton S., born June 18, 1861.
MORGAN LEWIS.
. The first known of this name were John and James Lewis, two brothers, who came from England at a very early day, and settled in Barnstable, Mass. James was the father of six sons. John, the eldest of these moved to Hingham, Mass. He had three sons, of whom the oldest was John, who moved eastward and lived in North Yarmouth. James Lewis, the second born, and great-grand- father to Morgan, was born December 27, 1724. His family was as follows :-
Lydia 1st, born May 26, 1750, died in infancy; Lydia 2d, born December 10, 1751; John, born Jan. 3, 1754; Bet- sey, born March 10, 1756; Rachel, born Nov. 24, 1757 ; James, born Dec. 6, 1759; Hannah, born Jan. 27, 1762 ; Laban, born April 12, 1764 ; Benjamin, born Nov. 13, 1766; Lucy, born March 3, 1769. Elijah, born March 3, 1773. The father of these died April 3, 1802. The moth- er, Lydia Pratt, also died.
Of these children, John, born in 1754, on the 27th of June, 1782, married Mary Phelps, who was born May 27, 1762. He died Feb. 3, 1828, aged 74; she died March 9, 1840, aged 77 years, 9 months. Their children were :- Seth, born Feb. 4, 1783 ; John, born Feb. 16, 1784 ; James, born Oct. 10, 1785 ; Calvin, born Jan. 18, 1788; Polly, born Sept. 18, 1789; Luther, born April 9, 1791 ; Lydia Ist, born Oct. 11, 1792, died Sept. 4, 1793 ; Lydia 2d, born May 25, 1794; Lucy, born Nov. 13, 1795 ; Betsey, born April 18, 1797; Warren, born June 6, 1799; Fanny, born Dec. 18, 1804; Hannah, born Dec. 27, 1806, died Oct. 26, 1827. John Lewis, the father of Morgan,
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was born in Suffield, Conn. He came to Harrisburgh, Lewis county, in 1804. His occupation was that of farmer. On the 15th of January, 1803, he married Betsey Winchell, who was born in Springfield, Mass., September 9, 1786. John died in Harrisburgh, December I, 1865 ; his wife died in the same place,
1845; Franklin, born May 10, 1822, died in Utah, May 11, 1850; Fanny, born Feb. 11, 1825, married Amos Lasher, of Harrisburgh, Feb. 16, 1848.
Morgan Lewis, the third child, was born April 27, 1808. His early life was passed in Harrisburgh, where he was born. He was educated in the common schools,
[MORGAN LEWIS.]
March 20, 1867. They had ten children, as follows :---
Mary A., born Aug. 1, 1803, died June 24, 1848; Caroline, born April 3, 1806, died Nov. 24, 1827; Morgan, born April 27, 1808; Julia, born April 14, 1810, died Feb. 1, 1842 ; George, born Aug, 31, 1812, died Aug. 27, 1882 : John, Jr., born Jan. 11, 1815 ; Betsey, born March 26, 1817, married Abel Bickford, Jan. 6, 1838, died Sept. 10, 1875 ; Warren, born Feb. 14, 1820, died in Rockford, Ill., Oct. 14,
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and adopted the occupation of farming, which he has always followed. He married Betsey Hazen, daughter of Sew- all Hazen, of Denmark, Feb. 19, 1846, who was born June 15, 1820. Their chil- dren are :- John Morgan, born March 15, 1847 ; Ledru Lycurgus, born Oct. 3, 1849: Wilson Hazen, born Dec. 24, 1851; Mary Eugene, born March 5, 1854, died Oct. 7, 1874; Bessie Edith, born Nov. 14, 1859; Emma Anna, born May 20, 1865.
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CHESTER S. CUNNINGHAM.
Aaron Cunningham, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Royal- ston, Mass., August 31, 1789. He came to Denmark, Lewis county, in the win- ter of 1817, where he resided until his death, which occurred in Copenhagen September 15, 1864. His wife was Mary
Copenhagen, April 19, 1825. He was educated in the district schools, and worked for a number of years at the trade of leather tanning with his father, who was engaged in that business at Charles Corners, near Copenhagen. He afterward took up the occupation of farming which he has since followed.
R.LITTLE
[CHESTER S. CUNNINGHAM. !
Dimock, of Norwich, Mass., who was born March 29, 1791, and to whom he was married November 14, 1813. She died December 31, 1859.
They had four children, namely :-
Lyman, born in Norwich, Mass., Sep- tember 17, 1814, died July 22, 1876; Dorothy E., born April 21, 1819, mar- ried I. W. Dickenson ; Chester S .: Mary E., born June 21, 1828, died May 14, 1830. Chester S. Cunningham was born in . May 12, 1868.
He was married to Nancy M. Snyder, of Picton, Canada, March 4, 1855, who died August 5, 1864, leaving one son and two daughters-Ellen M., born April 19, 1856, died August 4, 1856; William C., born January 23, 1858; and Hattie E., born August 3, 1861. He was again married to Maria H. Millard, of Copen- hagen, October 11, 1865, by whom he had one child, a daughter, Mary L., born
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ABNER MUNGER.
In the spring of 1801, the Nathan Mungers, (father and son,) millwrights, having had their attention called to the Black river country, came down the river and followed up Deer river to. half a mile above the falls, where they
Copenhagen village, and the place soon acquired the name of " Mungers Mills."
Nathan Munger, the father of Abner, was born in Ludlow, Mass., and came to this section of New York State in the spring of 1801. He married Louisa Bishop, who was also from Massachu- setts. Their children were: Nathan, who
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[ABNER MUNGER. ]
selected a site for mills, and in that season finished a saw-mill and got it in operation. The proprietors, to encour- age the enterprise, gave them the water privilege from the High falls up over two miles. In 1803, they got a small grist-mill, with one run of burr stone in operation in time to grind the first wheat raised in town as soon as it was in condition for use. The mill stood directly below the upper saw-mill in
was killed in 1811, by the falling of tim- bers in a house which he was repairing ; Isaac, who was born in 1780, and died April 20, 1855; Solomon, who died Oct. 16, 1863; Sylvester, who died in Hol- yoke, Mass., at what date is unknown; Roswell, who died July 12, 1870, aged 82; Anthony, who died Oct. 30, 1869; Elijah, who died June 2, 1877, aged 86; Sylvanus who died Aug. 1, 1877; Cham- pion, who left home in 1834, and has
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never been heard from since; Betsey, the first woman who came to this part of the town, married Calvin Blodgett, and died August 26, 1874, aged 91 years ; Polly, who married first, Eleazer Nash, second, Jeremiah Babcock, and who died September 26, 1864; Maria, who married Jason Millard, and died March 25, 1864, aged 65; and Samantha, who married Abijah Tisdale, and died Sep- tember 15, 1860, aged 60 years.
Abner Munger, the tenth child, was born May 29, 1801, in Paris, Oneida county, and came with his parents to Lewis county when about two years old. His early life was passed amid the hardships of pioneer days. He received the scanty education of the schools of those times, which was afterward en- larged by reading and commingling with men, and adopted the occupation of car- penter, in which business he was for some years engaged with his brother, Elijah. He afterward entered upon the life of a farmer, which he followed suc- cessfully for a number of years. He then retired from that business and took up his residence in the village of Copen- hagen where he now (1883) resides.
In 1825, he was married to Amelia Boswell, of Champion, Jefferson county, New York, by whom he had children as follows :- Russell, born Feb. 20, 1826, died Jan. 1, 1830; Louisa C., born July 20, 1830, died April 3, 1848. Mr. Munger's wife died April 3, 1858, and on the 9th of February, 1859, he married Elizabeth Hunt Boynton, who died Jan. 13, 1869. He then married Olive J. Lewis Collins, a native of Petersburg, Rensselaer coun- ty, Feb. 18, 1873, now living.
LUCIUS F. WRIGHT.
Charles Wright, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born Sept. 16, 1739, and married Ruth Smith, who was born May 17, 1750. He died July 13, 1820, and Ruth died March 24, 1834.
They had nine children, as follows :-
Lydia, born March II, 1772, died in . August, 1839.
Charles Wright, Jr., born July 28, 1774, died May 20, 1827.
Stephen S., born Aug. 18, 1776, died Sept. 27, 1840.
Tyrannus A., born Feb. 6, 1779, died July 21, 1863.
Ruth, born April 30, 1781, died Sept. 23, 1869.
Erastus, born May 28, 1787, died Aug. IO, 1865.
Chester, born Nov. 10, 1789, died June 25, 1835.
Nathan, born May 17, 1792, died Feb. 12, 1871.
Matthew M., born Oct. 24, 1794, died Sept. 10, 1870.
Of these children, Charles Wright, Jr., and Tyrannus A. came to the town of Denmark, Lewis county, in May, 1801, from Colebrook, Conn. They came down the Black river from the High falls on a raft, landing at the mouth of Deer river, then followed a line of marked trees through the wilderness to their future home, situated a mile west of what is now the village of Copenhagen. In the autumn of that year they went back to Connecticut, and in the follow- ing spring, with their parents and all of their brothers and sisters, returned again to Denmark. They started from Cole- brook about the first of March, making
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the entire journey in four weeks with a sled drawn by two ox teams. The entire family lived and died in the town of Den- mark, with the exception of Chester, who moved to Ohio.
Lucius F., the son of Tyrannus A. and Mary C. Wright, was born in the town
Pinckney. She died Nov. 27th, in that same year, leaving one child, Margaret Amelia, who afterward married the Hon. Cyrus L. Sheldon. He was again married November 12, 1835, to Ann M. Jeffers, daughter of Benjamin Jeffers, of Pinckney.
[LUCIUS F. WRIGHT.]
of Denmark Jan. 3, 1808. He was edu- cated in the common schools of those days, and the Lowville Academy. At the age of twenty he began teaching in the district schools of the county, which profession he followed for thirteen win- ters, and afterwards adopted the occu- pation of farmer. On the 16th of March, 1834, he married Margaret Armstrong, third daughter of James Armstrong, of
He held the office of School Inspector for the town of Pinckney from 1829 to 1840, with the exception of one year, and was captain of the militia company of Pinckney for five years. From 1848 to 1866 he was a resident of the town of Lowville, and while residing there was three times elected as Justice of the Peace. In 1866 he removed to Copen- hagen, where he still resides.
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ALONZO AND ROLAND J. RICH.
Josiah Rich, grandfather to Alonzo and Roland, emigrated from Claremont, New Hampshire, to Lewis county in 1816. His occupation through life was that of farmer. His wife was Elizabeth Stone. They were people of the Baptist
took up the farm on which he resided for the most part of his life. He put up a log cabin there, made a clearing dur- ing the summer, and in the fall returned to New Hampshire for his family, who came back with him in the spring of 1802. Joseph was born in 1776, and died July 8, 1864. His wife, Avis Dean, was
[ALONZO D. RICH. ]
persuasion, and were known far and near for their hospitable entertainment of the members and ministers of that denomination. Josiah died in 1834, aged 92 years. His wife died in 1819. They had a large family of children-Samuel, Josiah, Phebe, Eliza, Bazaleel Ives, Jo- seph, Benjamin H., and Ives Bazaleel.
Of these, Bazaleel Ives and Joseph Rich, came from Claremont to the Black River country, in 1801, where the latter
born in 1767, and died November 28, 1854. Their children were : Alonzo D., Roland J., and Horace B. The latter was born July 6, 1809, and died August 1, 1831.
Alonzo Dean Rich was born in what is now thetown of Denmark, Oct. 26, 1803. Here his early life was passed, and here he was educated in the common schools, supplemented by after training in the Lowville Academy. He has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits, in which he
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has been successful. He married Louisa Merriam, of Denmark, Feb. 27, 1831. Their children were: Maria D., born July 23, 1832, married Duane M. Cook, a native of Rodman, Jefferson county, died March 7, 1857 ; Sidney M., born July 30, 1835, died Aug. 20, 1882, in Hudson, Bates county, Mo .; Lorenzo M., born
been passed. He, too, received the edu- cation of the schools of those days and that to be obtained in the Lowville Acad- emy, which was organized when he was a mere child. For some years he taught school, but abandoned that profession for farming, which business he has since fol- lowed. He married Louisa Blodget,
[ROLAND J. RICH.]
Nov. 17, 1840, lives in Hudson, Mo .; Horace F., born Jan. 8, 1843 ; Henrietta A., born June 23, 1847, married the Rev. George B. Barnes, now (1883) in Ottawa, Illinois.
The wife of Alonzo D. died February 28, 1880, and he married for his second wife, Mrs. Isabel Pamelia Austin, of Denmark, December 5, 1880.
Roland Josiah Rich was born in Den- mark April 15, 1805, where his life has
in January, 1837, who died September 22, 1841, aged 33 years. She left a daugh- ter, Louisa, who was born September 9, 1841, and married Ensworth D. Bab- cock, of Denmark. Mr. Rich then mar- ried Sally Maria, a sister of his former wife, in 1843, who also died Dec. 28, 1850, at the age of 33. She left two children, viz : Sarah Augusta, born July 15, 1845 ; and Roland Jay, born Aug. 10, 1849, died in March, 1852, aged two and a half years.
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In January, 1852, Mr. Rich married Lucy Ann Blodget, who is still living.
JOSIAH D. RICH.
The father of the subject of this brief sketch was Bazaleel Ives Rich, brother to Joseph, the father of Alonzo
that time the forests have been removed, the blackened stump fields have given place to broad and fertile acres, and his hands have aided in the prosperity of the town. To that class of men, the hardy workers, the men of sturdy common sense, who feared no bodily labor, the towns of Lewis county owe their pres-
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[J. D. RICH.]
and Roland J. Rich. Josiah was born in Copenhagen, September 25, 1816. His early life was passed in Denmark where he was educated. He early took up the occupation of farming, in which business he has amassed a competency. He was married to Lovina M. Horning, : Jan. 2, 1845, who died July 5, 1875. Mr. Rich has passed his life in the town of his birth, and has witnessed the changes of nearly three-quarters of a century. In
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ent advanced and prosperous condition, and the citizens should not willingly per- mit their name to pass into oblivion. Josiah Rich in a few more years will be gone.
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