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Oliver C. Larcum, 50th N. Y. Eng. William Lovell, enl. 1862; died in Salisbury prison. Aaron Mckinney, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng. Alonzo McDougal, 15th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1864. Charles A. C. Mosher, 194th N. Y. Inf., Co. A; enl. 1865 ; disch. 1865. David McWhorter, 50th N. Y. Eng .; disch. 1863.
Ezra Mallory, enl. 1862. George McDougal, 15th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1864. George Miller, artificer: enl. 1862. Charles Murray, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng. Eber F. Morgan, enl. 1865. Ephraim Malette, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. D ; enl. 1862. Delbert Moody, enl. 1864. Gilbert McNaught, substitute; enl. 1864. Henry F. Malette, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng. John D. Milspaugh, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; shot near Petersburg by sharp- shooter.
Jolın F. Malette, lient., 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. 1861; disch. Feb. 8, 1862. James Maher, enl. 1863. Jeremiah M. Murphy, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. 1862. Job Marcy, substitute; enl. 1864. James McCarty, substitute, 194th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1865; disch. 1865. Kichel Miles, 107th N. Y. Inf.
Mortimer W. Morgan, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng.
Sylvester F. Malette, sergt., 50th N. Y. Eng.
William S. Malette, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. Sept. 1863; disch. Jan. 1865. Luther A. Mattison, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. 1862.
Samuel McManus, 23d N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861.
William Mallory, 141st N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1862.
Thomas McCue, substitute, 194th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1865; dischi. 1865. Andrew Norris, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1865; disch. 1865. Edward Norris, 15th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1865; disch. 1865. William Nichols, 1st N. Y. Vet. Cav., Co. G; enl. 1864. Gilbert Owens, enl. 1862.
Peter Ostrander, 50th N. Y. Eng .; en1. 1862. Rufus Owens, enl. 1862. Arnold Perry, 50th N. Y. Eng .; disch. Nov. 14, 1862. Benajah M. Parks, 1st Vet. Cav., Co. B; on1. 1863; disch. 1865. Erastus Putnam, enl. 1864.
Henry M. Plants, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. 1862. John Perry, 32d N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861.
Joseph J. Phelps, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. D; en1. 1862; disch. 1865. Jacob H. Perry, artificer ; 50th N. Y. Eng.
James Pierce, 194th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. 1865; dis.1 :. 1865.
Mathias M. Peterson, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. 18"2. Royal Phelps, 194th N. Y. Inf., Co. A ; enl. 1865: disch. 1865. Ralph Plumstead, 24th Cav., Co. D; enl. 1864. William Perry, enl. 1862.
Alanson Quackenbush, enl. 1864. Abram Rowe, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. H ; enl. 1863. Bernard Riley, 50th N. Y. Eng. Cornelius Rowe, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. B; enl. 1862. Jolın F. Robinson, 50th N. Y. Eng. James W. Riley, 50th N. Y. Eng. John W. Rowley, 50th N. Y. Eng. Hiram Rogers, 194th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1864. James Riley, 2d U. S. A. ; on1. 1861. John Reiley, enl. 1864. Jackson B. F. Reeder, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. D; enl. 1862. Benjamin Rhodes, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. B; enl. 1863. Thomas F. Rhodes, 50th N. Y. Eng .; en1. 1862. Robert P. Rogers, 50th Eng .; enl. 1862. Milton Reeder, 194th N. Y. Inf., Co. A ; en1. 1864. Nelson B. Rogers, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. D ; enl. 1863. Charles Shears.
Abdin O. Slater, 50th N. Y. Eng. Alvin C. Struckland, substitute. Buol Sterling, 50tl N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1861 ; disch. 1864. Benjamin M. Squire, enl. May 3, 1862. Byron D. Stuart, killed at Fort Pulaski. Charles Sherwood, 27th N. Y. Inf .; onl. 1861 ; re-enlisted in 14th N. Y. Art. Ephraim Smith, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1861.
Erastus Sayles, onl. 1863.
Elisha 11. Sherman, 194th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1865 ; disch. 1865. George Stocum, artificer; enl. 1862. Goorge A. Simmons, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1862. Jolin B. Squires, musician, 50th N. Y. Eng. George C. Stuart, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. Nov. 4, 1862. George W. Sayles.
Ilenry S. Sherwood, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. G; enl. 1862 ; dischi. 1865 ; re- onl. in 194th N. Y. Inf. Ira Shappe, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1862.
Jason H. Smart, 50th N. Y. Eng. Jonathan Sherwood, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. B; enl. 1864; disch. 1865. Jackson Seely, substitute; enl. 1864.
Levi Smith, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng. Luther Staley, 50th N. Y. Eng. ; enl. 1862.
Lyman Strait, 194th N. Y. Inf., Co. A; enl. 1865; disch. 1865. Lewis Sherwood, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. D; enl. 1862; disch. 1865. Matthew J. Stuart, onl. 1862.
Mortimer V. Sawyer, enl. 1862. Thomas D. Soper, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. D; enl. 1863; disch. 1865. Very Shuart, substitute; enl. 1864. William II. Sawyer, enl. 1862.
William Strong, enl. 1864.
H. Warren Seamon, musician, 48th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861; disch. 1863. Wellington Stone.
Charles A. Thompson, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1862; disch. 1865.
Daniel D. Thompkins, 50th N. Y. Eng .; en1. 1861; disch. 1865.
Charles A. Thomas, lieut., 23d N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861; disch. 1865; promoted. Edward Terwelliger, substituto; enl. 1864.
Hiramı Tompkins, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1862; dischi. 1865. Edward Thomas, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1861; disch. 1863. Franklin Terry, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1864; disch. 1865. Jolın B. Tifft, 194th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1865; disch. 1865.
Otis Thayer, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1861; disch. 1864.
Theodore G. Tompkins, musician, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1861; disch. 1861.
William O. Thayer, 14Ist Regt .; enl. 1862; disch. 1865.
William C. Tompkins, enl. 1864.
Sterling Taylor, substitute; enl. 1864.
Hiram Vandemark, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng.
Rufus Vail, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. G ; enl. 1862; disch. 1865.
Orin Vail, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1865; disch. 1865.
John Vangorder.
Charles Vangorder.
Willian Vanhouten, 103d Regt .; enl. 1862.
Morris P. Weed, artificer, 50th N. Y. Eng .; enl. 1862; disch. 1865. Albert Whitford, 194th Regt., Co. A ; enl. 1865 ; dischi. 1865.
Isaac Wellar, 24th N. Y. Cav .; enl. 1863; disch. 1865. Benjamin Williams, 34th Mass. Inf .; enl. 1864; disch. 1865.
Edwin Wellar, capt., 107th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1862; disch. 1865.
Abraham E. Wanzer, 50th N. Y. Eng., Co. D; en1. 1863. Amasa B. White, regt. band, 48th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. 1861 ; disch. 1863.
Dexter White, 50th N. Y. Eug. ; enl. 1864 ; disch. 1865. James White, regt. band, 48th N. Y. Inf. ; enl. 1861; disch. 1863.
John II. Wanzer, 107th N. Y. Inf., Co. D; enl. 1862.
Henry H. Worden, 38thı N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861 ; disch. 1862.
Mordecai Williams, 89tlı N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1863; disch. 1864; member of Forlorn Hope at Fredericksburg ; wounded at Petersburg, Va.
Theodore Wheat, enl. 1864.
Leroy Wellar, regt. band, 48th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861; disch. 1863.
Monroe Wellar, regt. band, 48th N. Y. Inf .; enl. 1861; disch. 1863.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
JAMES M. VAN DUZER,
the eldest son of William Van Duzer, was born at Union- ville, in the town of Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., on the 15th day of August, 1812. His mother was Sally M., the daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Wheeler, of Mount Eve, Orange County, -- an extensive land-owner, and one of the most prominent men of his locality.
Christopher Van Duzer, of Warwick, who was a captain in the Revolutionary war, was his grandfather.
In June, 1824, he moved with his father into Chemung County, then Tioga, and settled upon the Ridge Road, in the town of Veteran, on what has so long been known as the Van Duzer farin, where le resided almost continuously during his business life.
When he first settled in Veteran, there were only about ten aeres of cleared land upon the farm, and only one or two frame houses between it and Horseheads.
He was for a few years-1838 to 1843-engaged in the lumber business in the town of Southport, first with Syl- vester Sexton, and afterwards with Colonel Eli Wheeler, and erected a steam saw-mill upon his timber traet, sup- posed to have been the second steam saw-mill within the present limits of Chemung County. This enterprise was unsuccessful, and he returned to the farm and remained
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there until 1872, when his health compelled him to relin- quish active business, and he moved to the village of Horseheads, where he died, on the 5th of August, 1876.
He was married to Louisa Turner, the eldest daughter of Harvey Turner, Dec. 31, 1840, who, with two sons, survive him.
James In. VanDugu
For thirty years he was an active and public-spirited citizen. He served his town several terms as an assessor, and was for many years postmaster of the Veteran post- office, established by his father soon after moving into this county, and which, in the days of stage-coaches, was quite an important centre for the country round about it.
In 1850 he was elected Superintendent of the Poor for Chemung County on the Democratic ticket, and served three years. Being an ardent Free-Soil Democrat, he carly joined the Republican party, and ran as its candidate for sheriff on the first regular county ticket put in nomination in 1856, but was defeated.
After the passage of the act of 1857, creating a county board of commissioners of excise, he was appointed by Judge North, in May of tliat ycar, one of the Excise Commis- sioners for Chemung County, and performed the duties of that office until January, 1861, when his term expired.
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When the war of the Rebellion broke out, he was an enthusiastic supporter of the Government, and, though ex- empt from military duty, at his own expense sent a man into the army, and was among the most active of his towns- men in his efforts to have his town fill every quota called for; and it was a matter of great pride to him that no draft was ever made in the town of Veteran.
On the passage of the internal revenue law, in 1861, he was appointed one of the assistant assessors of his district,
and had the towns of Veteran, Catlin, Horseheads, and Big Flats under his supervision until 1867. By the re- duction of the internal revenue service and consolidation of the districts, his office was discontinued.
HORACE SEAMAN, M.D.
Few men of the preceding age began life under more adverse circumstances than the subject of this sketch. The oldest of six children, whose parents had no resources but their labor, and little time to care for their family, he early learned the lesson of self-reliance.
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H. Seaman M.D.
He was born Sept. 6, 1806, in the town of Pittsford, Rutland Co., Vt. His father, Benjamin Seaman, was an honest and upright man, and esteemed for his moral worth. The son's early educational advantages were limited to the com- mon school, which he was permitted to attend only a few months in the year; and here his advancement was re- tarded by extreme diffidence and stammering, which was not overcome until late in life.
Trifling incidents often shape our after-pursuits. So in the present case. When about eleven years of age, he was persuaded to bleed a lady suffering from pain in the head, with a penknife, which produced immediate relief. For this act he was reprimanded by the village doctor, who at the same time encouraged this rashness (as he called it) by offering to give him a lancet with directions as to its use, on condition that he should bleed such of his patients as might suddenly be taken with the then prevailing pleurisy, as he lived several miles away. The lancet was reluctantly accepted, the agreement fulfilled, and in a few weeks to this was added by the same man, Dr. Peleg Barlow, a turn-key for extracting teeth.
From thence onward his determination was to some day enter the medical profession, and his energies were turned in that direction. In the year 1824 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. P. Barlow, in Pittsford, Vt. In the fall of 1826 he attended his first course of lectures
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at Castleton. The summer of 1827 was spent in Brandon with Dr. Josiah Hale, and the autumn in again attending the lectures at Castleton, where he spent the next season with Professor Woodward, and graduated at the close of the lecture term of 1828. Thus, without pecuniary aid, he had accomplished the first object of his ambition at the age of twenty-two.
He was married to Sally S. Whipple, daughter of Wright Whipple, Dee. 12, 1828. She died Aug. 6, 1842. She was a woman of more than ordinary intelleet and aecom- plishments, and highly esteemed by all who knew her.
His second wife was Miss Eliza Thomas, daughter of the late Jonathan Thomas, a generous and noble woman. She is still living, and is the loving companion of his dcelining years.
The history of Dr. Seaman's medieal career is that of most country practitioners. He came to Millport in April, 1830, and was soon engaged in an active practice. He held his ground against competition for fifteen years, and was highly esteemed among his patients. His health failing, he went into mercantile business, with which (in company with his son, W. H. Scaman) he is still connected, but he did not wholly abandon the practice of his profession.
He is now the only member living who assisted in the organization of the Chemung County Medical Society, to which he has contributed some important papers, viz. : " A Report of a Case of Remarkable Injury of the Brain, and Recovery thercfrom ;" " An Essay on Stammering. Its Cause and Cure ;" " Report of a Case of Removal of the Placenta, after an Early Abortion, through the Tube of a Speculum." This being an . original suggestion, it called out discussion ; and, in reply to some adverse eritieism, Dr. Wm. C. Wey, who defended the proposed practice, said, " The application of the speeulum in this variety of profes- sional experience, mentioned and illustrated by Dr. Seaman, furnishes such an important aid in obstetrical practice that I can only speak of it in terms of the highest approval, as supplying the practitioner with a ready, novel, and effective method of bringing to a speedy and successful termination a ease which might otherwise prove tedious, complicated, and threatening."
Although a general practitioner, Dr. Seaman's field was more particularly confined to obstetries, as shown by the fact that he has been present at the births of over two thousand children, among whom are many of the third generation.
Dr. Seaman investigates for himself, tries to arrive at the truth, and to aet in accordance therewith. Thus he has made his influence felt in his town on all questions para- mount in the publie mind during the last half-century. Although strongly wedded to his opinions, he is not repel- lent in his manner, but genial and liberal in his social rela- tions, and maintains this character in spite of the weight of years and a feeble framc. He was an early worker in the temperance movement, and an uncompromising Abolitionist. He is an enthusiastie admirer of music and poetry, for which he has a very retentive memory.
He is now seventy-two years of age, with intellect unim- paired ; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, interested in all its enterprises, and desirous to leave the world better than he found it. The doetor is a man of un- blemished eharacter, and respected wherever he is known.
MOSES COLE, ESQ.
This gentleman was a prominent citizen of the town of Veteran, and for many years a resident of Millport. We here present a few data from a sermon preached at his funeral, by the pastor of his church, to whom his many virtues of head and heart were well known and duly ap- preciated : " Moses Cole was born at Jamestown, Mont-
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MOSES COLE, ESQ.
gomery Co., N. Y., Feb. 27, 1801, and died at Millport, Chemung Co., N. Y., June 5, 1875. His parents were natives of Connecticut; and he was the second of five children, all of whom are now in the spirit world. His parents were honest, virtuous, and God-fearing people, who brought up their children in the principles of virtue and religion. In the year 1812 the family removed to Fayette- ville, Onondaga Co., N. Y. On the 16th of January, 1823, Mr. Cole united in marriage with Miss Sophia Clink. Five children were born to them, all of whom, with the mother, survive the father's decease. At the time of their marriage neither of the parties was a professor of religion ; but two years subsequent to that event the husband was converted to God, and the wife two years later; both eon- necting themselves with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after his admission in the fold, he was elevated to the responsible position of class-leader, which office he held to the end of his life, a period of more than half a century. At about the same time he became class-leader he was made a Sunday-school superintendent.
" In the year 1840 he removed with his family to this beautiful valley, coming, as a master workman, to serve the State in the construction of the Chemung Canal, intending to return after a brief period to his former home. For two years he resided at Croton, or in that vieinity, and in 1842 he came to Millport, where he spent the remainder of his
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life. Mr. Cole has always been a man of commanding in- fluence in the communities where he has resided. This has been due to his intellect, his intelligence, his honesty, his kindness of heart, and his suavity of manners. He held various offices since he came among you ; in every case with eminent success. For four years he was judge of sessions ; for one year supervisor ; for six years, terminat- ing with his life, he was postmaster ; for ten years he was a justice of the peace, to which responsible office he was re-elected at the town-meeting next preceding his death by almost common consent. In the church, as in the com- munity, Brother Cole has always been a leader, not because he crowded himself forward, but because his brethren have laid responsibilities upon him from which he felt, as the servant of God, he could not shrink. He has not sought office, office has sought him. Though he was eminent as a citizen, a magistrate, and a man, we shall remember him chiefly as a Christian."
After careful inquiry among those who knew Mr. Cole longest and best, we can cordially indorse the estimate of him, as above given by his pastor.
CHARLES HALL,
the subject of this brief sketch, and whose portrait is here- with given, is one of the representative farmers of his town, and is a native of the town of Veteran. He was born the 28th
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CHARLES HALL.
day of February, 1832. His early life was spent upon a farm, as have been his later years. Although considerably inter- ested in the lumber business, having an interest in a saw- mill in the adjoining town of Catlin, agricultural pursuits have in the main engaged his efforts throughout life. He has a family of six children, all daughters. Mr. Hall has been a resident of the town of Veteran all his life, located about midway between the villages of Millport and Pine Valley. He is active and enterprising, and enjoys the confidence of his fellow-townsmen.
S. A. BEARDSLEY.
William Beardsley was among the first settlers and one of the original proprietors of Stratford, Conn. With his family, he embarked from London, in the ship " Planter," in April, 1635. He was admitted a freeman in Massachu- setts, Dec. 7, 1636. In the custom-house records he is de- scribed as a "mason." His family consisted of his wife, Mary, and one daughter, Mary, and two sons, John and Joseph. William Beardsley died in 1661.
Joseph, youngest son of the above, married Phebe Day- ton, of Brookhaven, Long Island. He died in Stratford, Conn., in 1712. His second son, John, married and had three children, viz. : Abraham, born March 6, 1696; John, Jr., born March 9, 1701; Andrew, born March 8, 1708. Joseph died in 1732. Abraham married Esther Jeanes, April 17, 1723, Rev. George Pigot performing the cere- mony. They had six sons and three daughters, of whom the youngest son, Michael, married Esther Nichols, whose family consisted of five sons and one daughter,-Lewis, Luke, David, James, Elias, and Polly. Luke lived and died near Bridgeport, Conn .; the other children came to Catharine, Tioga (now Schuyler) Co., in the years 1800 and 1801. They all bought land and commenced to clear up the heavily-timbered forest, and for many years endured the privations and hardships of a new country. Lewis was killed by the falling of a tree, May 26, 1802, aged thirty- two years.
David had four children, two of whom still live in Cath- arinc,-Lewis, the eldest son, how in the eighty-third year of his age, and Lucius C., the youngest son, who resides on the homestead. James married Hannah Beach, and had a family of eleven children, and lived to not only clear up his land, but to see all his children except two, who are deceased, comfortably settled around him. He and his wife both died in 1851.
Lewis, eldest son of the last mentioned, was born July 18, 1796. He worked upon his father's farm until his twenty- first year. In 1818 (March 3) he was united in marriage to Harriet Agard, daughter of Noah Agard, and com- menced their married life in a log house, but by industry and economy attained for themselves and family (six sons) a competency. Mrs. Beardsley died in 1870, in the sev- enty-fourth year of her age, but her husband still survives, and at the date of this sketch (1878) is living with his son, James E., in Montour, Schuyler Co., in the eighty-third year of his age.
Samuel A. Beardsley, eldest son of the above, was born June 15, 1819. Sept. 17, 1843, he married Miss Phebe Kendall. In 1846 they settled in the town of Veteran, on the farm they now occupy. Through a fixed determina- tion to provide a home for their old age, and by God's blessing, they have secured a small competency. Of his three children, his two daughters are married and settled near him; his only son, Grant, lives in North Carolina, and has three children, they being the tenth generation from William Beardsley, the first mentioned in this sketch. On another page of this work will be seen a view of S. A. Beardsley's home and surroundings,-a speaking evidence of a successful farmer.
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JOHN TURNER
was born in the town of Nassau, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., May 23, 1800, and was the seventh ehild of John Turner, who emigrated from Middletown, Conn., about the year 1780, with his then small family. The Turners originally emi- grated from England, the place of their nativity. John, the father of our subject, reared a family of twelve ehildren by his first wife, and three by his second ; spent his days in
JOHN TURNER.
Rensselaer County. Our subjeet remained with his father on the old homestead until twenty-seven years of age ; was married, Feb. 16, 1824, to Ulissa, daughter of Robert Tifft, of Steventown, Rensselaer Co .; by this union were born four children, two of whom survive, viz. : Stephen and Robert.
In 1827, month of February, Mr. Turner, in company with his wife, removed to Veteran township (then Tioga Co.) Chemung Co., eoming all the way with an ox-team and sled, bringing all their effects on said sled, and loeated
upon the farm where he now resides. Lived in a one-story log house for four years, when he ereeted the substantial frame house which he at present oecupies. From the date of settlement has continued to improve ; got out timbers for a barn the first year; purchased, with his brother David, 160 aeres. In polities Mr. Turner is Republican ; started out as a Whig, afterwards anti-slavery. Is a member of the Free-Will Baptist Church, with which he is prominently identified; has done mueh towards the maintenance of the
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MRS. JOHN TURNER.
society, and contributed liberally to the ehureh and sehool interests. He is also an advocate of temperanee, and has not tasted liquor in any form for more than fifty years, and never used tobaeeo in any form. Some thirty-seven years ago Mr. Turner made lumber, which he used to deliver at Havana with an ox-team for four dollars per thousand. Mrs. Turner died Oct. 1, 1871, and Mr. Turner is now tenderly eared for by his. son and family, they residing with him. He has been in the dairy business eighteen years.
S. R. PAGE.
Erastus Page emigrated from Litehfield Co., Conn., about 1819, settled in Milo, Yates Co., N. Y., and engaged in farming, which he followed for a few years, subjeet to the varied sueeess incident to pioneer life. Here the subject of this sketeh was born, July 10, 1822. At the age of six years he was removed, with his parents, to the village of Penn Yan, where he lived until he was nineteen. In 1840 he eommeneed to learn the eabinet-making trade with a cousin, Henry Page. Two years later he left Penn Yan, went to Trumansburg, Tompkins Co., N. Y., and there worked with his brother, L. E. Page, at the same business. With the last named he eame to Millport, Chemung Co., N. Y., in Oetober, 1842. Here he soon completed his majority, and began to do for himself. After working as a journeyman for two years at Geneva and West Dresden, he returned to Millport, purchased his brother's stoek in trade, and went into business for himself. Millport at that time was a
lively town ; lumbering and boat-building afforded a large and luerative business ; but eabinet-making was, perhaps, slower as a means of attaining wealth than any other of the town avoeations, which rendered necessary economie methods in its eonduet. " Live within your means" had been learned from a father's experienee, and was followed by the son during his entire business eareer. For nineteen years he was engaged in this braneh.
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