History of Steuben county, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 80

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lewis, Peck & co.
Number of Pages: 826

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CHURCHIES.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

The first Methodist meetings in the town of Dansville were held on Oak Hill,-in the house of George Butler, half a mile north of the present church,-in the spring of 1817. Parker Buel and James Bronson were the first preachers. A class was formed immediately after, consist- ing of George Butler and his wife Abigail, Thomas Buck and his wife Abigail, and Robert Butler, brother of George. who was class-leader. The next summer, meetings were held at the residence of Thomas Buck.

In 1818 there was a general revival of religion, com- mencing in August and continuing through the winter, under the preaching of Revs. Buel and Bronson, convert- ing nearly the entire population for miles around, and in- creasing the class to nearly 100 members.

The walls of the first honse of worship in the town-well remembered by the old families as the old log church-were rolled up in 1819, without the aid of any trustees or build- ing-committee, and occupied immediately. Mrs. Benjamin Picket, the first convert. died the day the church was raised.

As cold weather came ou, Cyril Buck and Philander Hitchcock secretly purchased a stove, which they put up in the church before any one knew their intentions.

Early services were held in the school-house at Beach- ville, John Root being an .early worker in the church at that place. Afterwards, as the centre of population changed, a new church was built in Rogersville by Leeds Allen and William C. Rogers, Trustees, and dedicated, July 19, 1841, by Rev. Mr. Woodruff.

In 1862 a new church, costing $2200, was dedicated on Oak Hill, three-fourths of a mile west of the old log church. John Kreidler, Julius Hulbert, and Daniel Kreidler were the trustees. Mrs. Lydia Woodard is the oldest member of this church now living, having been a member for fifty- two years.

The first class-leaders were Leeds Allen, Joshua Wood- ard, and Joseph Flint. The pastors have been : 1817-18, Revs. Parker Buell, James Bronson ; 1819, Thomas McGee, Elihu Nash; 1822, Asa Allen, John Copeland; 1823, Robert Packer, Nelson Hoag; 1825-26, John Arnold, Asa A. Call, Henry F. Row; 1828, John Arnold, Levi B. Castle ; 1833, Asa B. Pickard, Samuel Salsbury ; 1837, John Shaw, Andrew Pickard ; 1838, Robert Parker, Nelson Hoag, Ben- jamin Sabin, Caleb Kendall, Micah Seiger, and Chester B.

1870. Peter Kreidler.

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Atgate ; Menzu Doud, Osa Orcott, Samuel Chureli, and Ira Bronson ; John Shaw, Saul Church, and John Knapp have served in the old log church. Subsequently the same pas- tors have supplied all, including the following: 1847, V. Brownell; 1849, D. Ferris; 1857, J. M. Park ; 1859, D. Knapp; 1861, E. D. Rosea; 1862, T. Jolly; 1863-64, R. Parker; 1865, Rev. Mr. Hall; 1866, E. T. Bliven ; 1867, Charles Bush ; 1868, J. T. Thompson ; 1869, Wm. Haskell ; 1870, Rev. Mr. Dunkin ; 1871-72, William Has- kell; 1874-75, A. Sorenberger; 1876-77, W. W. Mande- ville; 1878, M. J. Landreth.

Present trustees : Oak Hill, Lorenzo Hulburt, Harvey Cleveland ; Rogersville, Peter Kreidler, Joseph S. Flint, J. M. Hendee. Present officers : Daniel Kreidler, Joseph S. Flint, Lorenzo Hulburt, Class-Leaders ; Peter Kreidler, Re- cording Secretary ; J. M. Hendee, Joseph S. Flint, Daniel Kridler, Newton Kingsley, Stewards. Total membership, 84.

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHI.

The first Baptist meetings in Dansville were held by a Rev. Mr. Ford, of Iloward, as early as 1819, at Beach- ville, in the log school-house, on Thomas Brayton's land. Mr. Brayton, who was a deacon of the church and an elo- quent speaker, also held meetings when there was no pastor at hand, and officiated at funerals. Annual association meetings were held in barns during the summer. Among the early members were Thomas and Nathaniel Brayton, Tolman Brown, James Bryant, Robert and Jonathan Sloan, Stephen Holden, Erastus-Sexton, Morton Smith, and Thos. M. Bowen.

In 1852, Rev. Nicholas B. Rector came to Dansville and found the society divided into Old School and New School factions. Rev. George Dye was preaching to the New School, and Mr. Rector took charge of the Old School fae- tion, reorganizing with 24 members. Each factiou occu- pied the church on alternate Sundays. Revs. Prentice, Jones, and Green succeeded Mr. Dye until the decease of Rev. Mr. Rector, in 1865, after which Rev. Mr. Thorp supplied them occasionally, for a short time, and the church was abandoned.

There have been deacons : Old School, Thomas Brayton, Aaron Bowen ; New School, Robert Beach.

The present trustees are Robert Beach, Philip Brayton, John P. Faulkner. The church was a fine building, but has been suffered to fall into decay.

THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCHI.

This society was organized at Rogersville through the efforts of Rev. Asa Upson soon after the opening of the seminary, in 1848, and in 1852 a church was built in the village at a cost of $2800. Joseph Phelps, Elisha Robin- son, and John M. Bryant were trustees. This church was dedicated by Rev. J. H. Tabor. Among the early mem- bers were John Robinson, Joshua Healy, Uriah Upson, Jerome B. Phelps, Humphrey Stevens. Pastors, O. B. Clark, Asa Upson, T. H. Tabor, Rev. Mr. Austin, E. M. Whitney, Rev. Mr. Payne. The society has ceased to exist since 1866.

An evangelical society was formed in the north part of the town in 1863, and a church built on Oak Hill, which

was burned soon after. A second one was subsequently erected at an expense of $900. Fred. Hanna and wife were leading members. A Roman Catholic church was built of logs in the north German settlement in 1834. These have both been merged in stronger societies in ad- joining towns.

MILITARY RECORD OF DANSVILLE.

George M. Morrison, sergt., Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. William O. Sylvester, corp., Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Joseph C. Newcomb, corp., Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Thomas W. Cotton, corp., Co. F, 14Ist N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. William B. Ames, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862.

George B. Burditt, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862.

Leister Baker, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Joseph S. Flint, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Albert Goodeno, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. John Gray, Co. F, 14Ist N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Benjamin & Johnson, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Edward A. Kreidler, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. ; eul. Sept. 11, 1862. George Owston, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Mathias Pomroy, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; ent. Sept. 11, 1802. Liscomb K. Robinson, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862. Nelson B. Root, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862.

William D. Sylvester, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862.

Lyman Wellington, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. Sept. 11, 1862; died in Ander- sonville, Ga., prison.

Bruce Luther, sergt., Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf.

John C. Drehmer, sergt., Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf.

John C. Wheaton, sergt., Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf.

William L. Lookins, sergt., Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf.

Dorr Faulkner, corp., Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf. George Dolph, Co. B, 136th N. Y Inf.

Martin L. Anderson, Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf.

W. Seymour Babcock, Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf.

Aaron B. Baker, Co. B, 130th N. Y. Inf.

Patrick Finn, Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf.

Baldess Foot, Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf.

Amariah Boylan, Co. B, 13Gth N. Y. Inf.

Egbert Gors, Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf. John Heller, Co. B, 136th N. Y. Inf. William Stiffy, corp., Co. D, 14th N. Y. Art .; enl. Sept. 12, 1863.

Warren Preston, Co. D, 14th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Sept. 12, 1863.

George Cunningham, Co. D, 14th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Sept. 12, 1863.

James E. Fulton, Co. D, 14th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Sept. 12, 1863.

William Goode, Co. D, 14th N. Y. Art .; enl. Sept. 12, 1863.

Thomas Hughes, Co. D, 14th N. Y. Art. ; enl. Sept. 12, 1803.

Ilarrison Morehess, wounded at second Bull Ruo. Thomas H. Levers, 136th N. Y. Inf.

Joseph 11. Bowen, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.

David Bowen, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.

Stephen B. Clark, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.

Russell B. Carrington, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.

William L. Flint, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. George Frisby, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. George Owston, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf .; killed.

Nelson B. Root, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. Abram Russell, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf. George Sherer, Co. F, 141st N. Y. Inf.

G. C. Sylvester, 141st N. Y. Inf.

E. Wellington, Co. B, 13th N. Y. Inf.

Fred Wellington, 13th N. Y. Inf.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

MICHAEL WEBER,

son of John J. and Maria A. Weber, was born in Ger- many, March 6, 1826. He received a common-school education. He emigrated to America, and settled at Pitts- ford, Monroe Co., N. Y., in July, 1848, and remained about six months, during which time he worked on a farm ; then settled in Wayland, Steuben Co., N. Y., in 1849, and worked for his cousin, Frederick Westerman, on the farm and at lumbering. He then farmed ou shares for some

MRS.ANNA MARIA WEBER.

MICHAEL WEBER.

RESIDENCE OF MICHAEL WEBER, DANSVILLE, STEUBEN CO., N Y

DORCAS SHIPMAN.

ISAAC SHIPMAN.

RESIDENCE OF ISAAC SHIPMAN, DANSVILLE, STEUBEN CO, N Y

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eight years, and purchased his present beautiful home in the spring of 1863. Ilis farm consists of one hundred and ninety acres of good, improved land, on which are some of the best farm buildings in this section, a fine view of which, with portraits of himself and wife, may be seen elsewhere in this work.

ITis parents came to America and settled in Pittsford, N. Y., in 1852. They bought a home in Dansville, Liv- ingston Co., N. Y., the same year, and continued to reside there till their death. His father died in October, 1865, and his mother in September, 1872. They had five chil- dren,-one son and four daughters,-all of whom are liv- ing, and each of whom has a family.

Michael Weber married Anna Maria, daughter of Michael and Mary Sandel, of Lehigh Co., Pa., Oct. 31, 1854. She was born Nov. 29, 1830, and removed to Dansville, Liv- ingston Co., N. Y., in the spring of 1832, in company with her parents, who died in that town. Mr. and Mrs. Weber have six children, viz., Julius, Mary, Elizabeth, George, William, Carrie, and Emma, all of whom are now at home.

Mr. Weber was a member of the Lutheran Church in Germany, but has not united with any religious body since coming to America. Mrs. Weber is a member of the Reformed Church, but both are attendants on the Presby- terian Church at Arkport. Mr. Weber is a representa- tive man of the town in which he resides, and is well deserving a place in this history. He affiliates with the Democratie party in his political convictions.

ISAAC SHIPMAN.

The ancestors of the subject of this sketch came from Germany. Mathias Shipman, grandfather of Isaae, was a native of New Jersey. He had several children, of whom one was Mathias, Jr. Mathias, Sr., died in New Jersey, where his wife also died. Mathias, Jr., was a native of New Jersey. Ile married Catherine Kline, who was also a native of that State. Miss Catherine Kline's grand- parents were born in Germany, and settled in Greenwich,

N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Shipman had ten children,- five sons and five daughters,-of whom Isaac was the seventh child and fourth son. He was born in New Jersey, June 8, 1802, and left that State in company with his parents and family when but five years of age, and settled in Bloom, Columbia Co., Pa., where his parents died. His father was a farmer, and Isaac remained on the farm till 1824, when he settled at Sparta, Livingston Co., N. Y., where he remained one year. He then went to Canada, and remained about a year ; then returned to Sparta, and remained there till 1833, when he settled on Oak Hill, in the town of Dansville, where he resided till the spring of 1870, when he settled on his present fine farm of some ninety-eight acres, a view of which, with his residence and portraits of himself and wife, appear on another page of this work. Mr. Shipman was engaged in a distillery some seven years after leaving his father's farin, since which he has followed farming.

He married Doreas, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Berry, of Pennsylvania, March 4, 1830. She was born Sept. 19, 1807, in Columbia Co., Pa. They have had seven chil- dren, viz., William, Elizabeth, Mathias, Catherine, Jack- son, Alonzo, and one who died in infancy. Elizabeth married John Lyman Wellington, of Rogersville, by whom four children were born. John L. Wellington was a sol- dier in Company F, 141st Regiment, New York Volunteers, was in several engagements, taken prisoner, and died while in prison at Danville, Va. Mathias and Catherine are at home. Alonzo was a soldier in Company K, Ist Regiment, New York Dragoons, mustered into service at Portage, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1862, promoted to corporal, Dec. 10, 1863, and died at Finly Hospital, Washington, D. C., Aug. 18, 1864, from the effects of a wound received at Trevillion, June 11, 1864. He was a brave and gallant soldier and a true patriot. All the rest of the children are dead. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Shipruan are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Burns.

In politics Mr. Shipman was formerly a Jackson Demo- crat, but of late years he has been a staunch Republican.

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ERWIN.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

THIS town lies west of Corning, and was formed from Painted Post, July 27, 1826. Lindley was taken off in 1837, and a part of Corning was annexed in 1856. The surface of the town is about equally divided between high rolling uplands, and the broad alluvial valleys of the streams. The hills rise from four to six hundred feet above the valleys, which are from one to two miles wide. The Tioga and Canisteo Rivers unite in the southern part of the town; the Tioga and Conhocton in the northeast part, forming the Chemung River.

SOIL AND PRODUCTS.

The lands of this town are divided into valleys and hills, three-fifths of which, perhaps, belong to the latter division. Nearly the whole of them in the valleys of the Conhoeton, Tioga, and Canisteo are improved. The soil is a deposit of rich alluvium, well adapted to the growth of cereals, roots, and most of the choice fruits, and many of the farms are now carefully and scientifically cultivated. The hills, where the sides are not too precipitous (and this is rarely the case, though some of them reach an altitude of nearly six hundred feet above the rivers), are all tillable, and their soils of loam and elay generally prodnee good crops and are well adapted to fruit and grazing.

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

The first settlement in Steuben County was made within the bounds of this town. In 1786, William Harris, a Pennsylvania Indian trader, established his cabin and trading-post near the north end of the bridge which now spans the Conhocton River, in the village of Painted Post. While he was in Pennsylvania on a visit, about Christmas, 1787, his house was burned. This is the circumstance re- ferred to by Judge MeMaster in the following description of Judge Baker's visit to Painted Post, with his Indian guide, from his log cabin up the Tioga River, just beyond the Pennsylvania line :

" On the morning of Christmas day, in the year 1787, a backwoodsman and an Indian issued from the door of a log cabin, which stood half buried in snow on the point of land lying between the Cowanesque Creek and the Tioga River, at the junction of those streams, and set forth on the ice of the river for a journey to the settlers below. They were elad according to the rude fashion of the fron- tiers and the forest, in garments partly obtained by barter from outpost traders, and partly stripped by robbery from the beasts of the forest. Tomahawks and knives were stuck in their belts, snow-shoes were bound to their feet, and kuapsaeks of provisions were lashed to their baeks.

Such was the equipment deemed necessary for travelers in Steuben County not a century ago. . . .

" The pioneer and his savage comrade pursued their journey on the ice. The Tioga was then a wild and free river. From its source, far up in the . Magnolia Hills' of the old provincial maps, down to its union with the equally wild and free Conhocton, no device of civilized man fretted its noble torrent. A single habitation of human beings stood upon its banks, the log cabin at the mouth of the Cowanesque. . . . But it bore now upon its frozen surface the forerunner of an unresting race of lumbermen and far- mers, who in a few years invaded its peaceful solitudes, dammed its wild flood, and hewed down its lordly forests, through which it flowed. The travelers kept on their course beyond the mouth of the Canisteo to the Painted Post. Here they expected to find the cabin of one Harris, a trader, where they might have lodgings for the night, and, if necessary for the comfort of the savage breast, a draught from 'the cup which cheers (and also inebriates).' On their arrival at the head of the Chemung, however, they found that the cabin had been destroyed by fire. The trader had either been murdered by the Indians, or de- voured by wild beasts, or else he had left the country, and Steuben County was in consequence depopulated.

" Disappointed in this hope, the two travelers continued their journey on the ice as far as Big Flats. Here night overtook them. They kindled a fire on the bank of the river, and laid them down to sleep. The air was intensely cold. It was one of those clear, still, bright nights, when the moon seems an iceberg, and the stars are bright and sharp like hatchets. The savage rolled himself up in his blanket, lay with his back to the fire, and did not so much as stir till the morning; but his companion, though framed of that stout stuff out of which backwoodsmen are built, could not sleep for the intensity of the cold. At midnight a pack of wolves chased a deer from the woods to the river, seized the wretched animal on the ice. tore it to pieces, and devoured it within ten rods of the encampment. Early in the morning the travelers arose and went their way to the settlements below, the first of which was Newtown, on the site of the present village of Elmira.

" The baekwoodsman was Samuel Baker, a New Eng- lander, afterwards well known to our citizens as Judge Baker, of Pleasant Valley."

SURVEYORS AT PAINTED POST.

That portion of the Phelps and Gorham purchase which now constitutes Steuben County was surveyed into townships by Augustus Porter, Frederick Saxton, and others, in the summer of 1789. Judge Porter, in his narrative published in Turner's History of the Holland Purchase, says with regard

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EDWARD TOWNSEND

EDWARD TOWNSEND.

Henry A. Townsend was of English origin. He settled in Bath before the year 1800, and was the second county clerk of Steuben County. He was associated with such men as Governors Clinton and Tompkins. He was a warm advocate of all the improvements; was a member of the Legislature of this State in 1809, and made his influence felt for good. He finally settled at Cold Springs, where he was engaged in the man- ufacture of paper and woolen goods. He purchased his mill property of Gen. McClure, and erected the first paper-mill in the county. He married Elizabeth Moffit, of Orange Co., N. Y., by whom several children were born, of whom Edward was one. His wife died, and he married a Miss Elizabeth Hull, of Connecticut, by whom one daughter-Sarah-was born. He died Oct. 23, 1837. Edward Townsend, son of Henry A., was born in the year 1799. He received an academic education, and was studying law at Albany when his health gave out, and he was compelled to seek out-door employment.

He married Eliza, eldest child of Capt. Samuel Erwin, November, 1821. Miss Eliza Erwin was born Oct. 15, 1801, at Easton, Pa., and settled in Erwin with her parents in 1803. As the result of the above union, one son-Edward Erwin Townsend-was

born, Jan. 23, 1825, at Athens, Pa., whither his parents had gone to reside on a farm.

Edward Townsend was injured by the kick of a horse, from the effects of which he died nine days after, about 1826. Soon after the death of her husband, Mrs. Town- send left her home in Athens, Pa., and with her little son, Edward E., came to Erwin to reside with her parents, Capt. Samuel Erwin and wife. After the death of her mother, in 1860, she settled on her farm where she now resides. Mrs. Townsend has been a member of the Presbyterian Church for more than fifty-five years. Edward Erwin Townsend lived with his uncle, Gen. F. E. Erwin, after the death of his father until his mar- riage to Miss Nancy L. Jerome, Sept. 7, 1848. She was born in Suffolk Co., N. Y., March 12, 1826. Of this union eight children were born, three of whom are living, viz. : F. E. and Arthur E., now residing in Cali- fornia, and Annie L., now at home with her parents. Mr. Townsend received a common-school and academic education. He settled on his present farm soon after marriage.

He is one of the solid Republicans of Erwin. He is postmaster at present. Besides having the charge of a large farm, he has charge of the depot, which he built principally.

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John M. Millersono

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JOHN M. PATTERSON.

John M. Patterson, son of Benjamin and Sarah Patterson, was born in Erwin, March 23, 1804.

Benjamin was born in Loudon Co., Va., Sept., 1759. He was a farmer by occupation, and learned the trade of blacksmith when young. He served through the Revolutionary war as a soldier, and during a portion of this time he acted as a spy on the frontier, for which he received extra remuneration. Benjamin left Virginia when a very young child, in com- pany with his mother, for Bald Eagle, Pa., where Mrs. Patterson's parents (Benjamin Boone and wife) then resided. This was Benjamin Patter- son's home till he became a resident of Northumberland Co., Pa., from which place be removed to Corning, then "Painted Post," May, 1797. At the close of the Revolutionary war he returned home and remained till he was called to be a soldier under General Sullivan. He was in several battles, some of which were very severe. He was present at the burial of those who were massacred at Wyoming of historic fame. He had charge of the boats on their return to Northumberland from Athens (then Tioga Point).

He married three times. First, to Jemima Price, of Pennsylvania, of wbom one son, Samuel, was born. Second, to Mary Taggart, of North- umberland, of whom three children were born, viz., Thomas, Hannah, and Mary. Third, to Mrs. Sarah Shannon, formerly Sarah McCalla, of Bucks Co., Pa., but at this time of Northumberland Co., Pa., married in 1795, of whom three children were born, viz., Robert, Sarah, and John M.

Mr. Patterson kept public bouse at Knoxville, town of Corning, some six years, and then purchased a farm of Hugh Erwin, in the town of Erwin, then " Painted Post," in 1803, where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred July 2, 1830. Mrs. Patterson died July 6, 1849. Mr. Pat- terson was closely identificd with all the material and religious intorests of the town in which he lived, and his home was often the resort for ministers af varions denominations. He held varions town offices, such as commis- sioner and supervisor of Painted Post. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife of the Presbyterian Society. He was em- ployed by Captain Chas. Williamson, in 1792, to conduct a company of two hundred and thirty emigrants from Williamsport, Pa., to the Genesee River, to a place now known as Mount Morris, then "Big Tree." After

the Revolutionary war he was chosen captain in the State militia, and was known by some as Captain Patterson.

John M. was reared among the scenes of pioneer life, receiving a com- mon-school education, with General Francis Erwin and his family, also General W. D. Knox, and Captain John P. Knox, and many other old pioneer boys and girls of whom mention is made in this history. He was reared a farmer, which honorable calling he has followed through life. He remained at home till his father's death, when he came In possession of one-half of his father's farm. He continued to reside there till 1872, having added some two hundred and fifty acres more, besides land in other parts ; in all, he had five hundred and forty acres of land.

Mr. Patterson has been quite extensively engaged as a stock-grower, and was one of the best farmers in the town. He now owns some two hundred and forty acres.

He removed to Painted Post in the spring of 1872, and to the place where he now resides in 1873. In politics formerly a Jackson Democrat, of late years he sustains men rather than party. He has been for many years commissioner and assessor of Erwin.

Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are wortby members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Painted Post, and have been for more than fifty years. He is a temperance man, and a liberal supporter of the society to which he belongs.

He married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Temperance Cook, March 28, 1826. Mrs. Patterson was born Aug. 16, 1807, in Painted Post, now Lindley. Her parents wore natives of New Jersey, and removed into Steuben County, while they were yet children, with their parents. Mrs. Patterson's great-grandfather came from England and settled on Long Island. Her grandfather, David Cook, served in the Revolutionary war as lientenant ; was by occupation a farmer, and died at the age of eighty- eight. Her father, Samuel Cook, was born on Long Island, in 1779, Jan. 30; married Temperanco Van Wey, of New Jersey, about 1803 or 1804, of whom nine children were born. He died Sept. 8, 1864, and Mrs. Cook died Feb. 9, 1843. By the union of Mr. and Mrs. Patterson six children were born, viz., Tomperance S., Sarah A., Harriet C., Robert H., Alfred D., and Samuel B.

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History of Steuben county, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 80

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford) Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Philadelphia, Lewis, Peck & co. Number of Pages: 826

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lewis, Peck & co.
Number of Pages: 826