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After a vacancy of four months A. R. Tupper be- came pastor; during his pastorate of about one year twenty were added by baptism and ten by letter. E. W. Bliss be- came pastor in July, 1855, and remained two years and four months; ninety members were received by him by baptism and thirty-three by letter. In 1851, 1854, 1856 and 1858 ex- tensive revivals occurred. In 1858 Elder L. W. Olney be- came pastor the second time, and he continued such until April Ist, 1864. During his second pastorate twenty-six were received by baptism and thirty-eight by letter. In March, 1860, Benson Tallman, son of Deacon Charles Tall- man, and Charles R. Needham, son of Deacon Calvin Need- ham, were chosen deacons. From August, 1864, A. L. Farr was pastor until March, 1867, during which time thirty-two new members were received. In. March, 1867, Rev. C. A. Votey became pastor, and continued as such until April Ist, 1870; forty-two members were received by him. April 17th, 1870, Rev. L. E. Spafford became pastor, and remained until April Ist, 1872, during which time seventeen were added to the church. September 3d, 1872, Rev. W. P. Decker became pastor. His pastorate ceased May 1st, 1878; sixty.one members having been added.
July Ist, 1878, Rev. J. V. Osterhout, the present pastor, be- gan his labors here, which have resulted in an accession of forty members by baptism, while twenty-five have been re- ceived by letter.
From the records it appears that the church during its existence of sixty-two years has received by baptism seven hundred and fifty-six, and six hundred and forty-one by let- ter from other churches, making in all one thousand three hundred and ninety-seven members. At least eight mem- bers of this church have been licensed or ordained to the ministry.
The present membership is two hundred and forty-one. Benson and Charles Tallman are deacons, and L. C. Felch is the church clerk.
In 1835 the Sunday-school was organized. Elias West was appointed superintendent; the school prospered and in- creased, and has continued to be a prolific nursery of the church. During the past year thirty-Eve members of the Sunday-school have been baptized and received into the church. The school consists of one hundred and forty-nine scholars and twelve teachers; A. H. Felch is the superin- tendent, Charles Hess assistant, George R. Allen treasurer, E. V. Spelman secretary, G. L. Washburn chorister, and Marcia Washburn organist.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
GURLEY F. ABBOTT, son of Joseph and Betsey Abbott, was born at Shafts bury, Vt.,in 1822, and came to Castile in 1800. In 1845 he married Miss Betsey Ames, daughter of John and Polly Ames, of Castile, by whom he had one child. Mr. Abbott died in 1870. His widow remains upon the bomesteed.
NICHOLAS A. ALPAUGH, son of Aaron and Sarah Alpaugh, was born in Lebanon, N. J., in 1841. He was married to Mies Elizabeth Crego, daughter of the late Lester B. Crego, of Castile, in 1882. They have one child, a daughter. Mr. Alpaugh settled in Castile in 1865. He is a farmer, and bes served as highway commissioner for the last five years.
BARNABAS AMES, son of John and Polly Ames, was born in 1828 in Castile, and was married in 1860 to Miss Jerusha J. Lake, daughter of Ralph and Maria Lake, of Castile. He is a farmer and mechanic. His father came on foot to Castile in 1818, articled fifty acres of wild land in section 60, and con- tinued to reside upon it to the time of his death.
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HISTORY OF WYOMING COUNTY, NEW YORK.
JAMES ANDERSON, son of George and Jane Anderson, was born at Sligo, Treland, in 1802, and came to America in 1806 with his parents; remaining for a time in New York city, and 1814 in Greene county, N. Y., where George Anderson died. James was married in 1819 to Miss Lorinda Hutchinson, daughter of Daniel and Polly Hutchinson, of Dutchess county, N. Y., and had children. In 1880 James Anderson removed to bis late residence, on lot 35 of the Gardesu reservation, where he died in 1869, his widow surviving.
A. J. AXTELL was born in 1848 at Pike, N. Y., and was married in 1876 to Miss Laura J. Post, daughter of John and Jane Post, of Castile. He came to Castile in 1869, and is proprietor of Post's Hotel at Castile station. He . keeps a first-class bouse with livery stable attached.
ALFRED BALDWIN, a ton of Josiah and Sarah Baldwin, was born in Lime, Grafton county, N. H., in 1809. He was a wagon maker through the more active part of his life. In 1838 be came to Perry, and in 1886 to Castile. He was married to Miss Sibyl Burrows, daughter of Benjamin and Eunice Burrows, of Livonia, Livingston county, N. Y.
ORSON C. BILDEN, son of Paul and Miranda Belden, was born in Castile in 1857, and married Miss Cornelia F., daughter of Rufus and Cornelia Peet, of Castile. They had four children. Mr. Belden died in 1871; he held the office of commissioner of highways.
NELSON 8. BALDEN was born in 1889 in Castile, and was married in 1863 to Mies Margaret A. Baker, of Castile. He is a farmer. His parents were Paul and Miranda Belden.
SCHUYLER BLISS, son of Eleazer and Clarisen Bliss, was born in Otsego county, N. Y., in 1810, and in 1880 came to Pike, N. Y. In 1883 be married Miss Marietta Porter, daughter of Joseph and Alice Porter, and has had two children. He came to Castile to reside in 1871, and bought his present farm.
ABRAHAM BRADT, son of John A. and Wilmot Bradt, was born in 1800 in Schenectady county, N. Y., and was married in 1825 to Miss Mary Jane Craw- ford, daughter of Joseph and Isabel Crawford, of Schenectady. He came to Castile in 1824, and settled on his present place.
GEORGE H. BUSH was born in 1840 in Wethersfield, N. Y., and was married in 1805 to Miss Lucy Gordon, of Pike. He came to Castile village in 1809, and is a partner in the old and successful arm of Wing & Bush, druggists and dealers in toys, fancy goods, books, etc.
ELISHA S. BUCKLAND was born September 21st, 1821, in Perry. He mar- ried Christina Beadle in 1864. She died. He married Adelia Johnson May 28d, 1800. He is a farmer, and has been a resident of Castile since 1854.
MORGAN L. CALKINS, son of John and Electa Calkins, was born in 1824 in Cayuga county, N. Y., and in 1860 was married to Miss Lydia I. Needham, of Castile. They have five children. He came to the town with his parents in 1838. and is a farmer.
MORGAN L. CALKINS, son of Captain Daniel and Tabitha Calkins, was born in Aurelius, Cayuga county, N. Y., in 1821, and came to Castile in 1824. In 1844 be was married to Miss Cynthia, daughter of John and Polly Ames, of Castile, who died in 1872, aged fifty-one years. In 1874 Mr. Calkins married Miss Mary, daughter of Robert and May Gregg, of Castile. They have two sons. Mr. Calkins has been justice of the peace since 1876.
ROLLIN N. CALKINS was born in 1885 at Centerville, N. Y. His business is milling and manufacturing cider, vinegar, etc., he being a member of the Arm of Lock & Calkins.
HARVEY T. CASTLE, son of Samuel J. and Permelia Castle, was born in Bennington, N. Y., in 1812. He served in Company B 17th Pu. cavalry through the last three years of the civil war. He came to Castile in 1809. where be was married the following year to Miss Eliza B. Potter, of the same place. He is a carpenter and joiner.
ALBERT F. CHACE, the youngest son of George B. and Loretta M. Chace, was born in the town of Castile in 1843. His parents came from Washington county. N. Y., to Castile in 1825. Albert F. was first married in 1808 to Miss Emma P. Stickney, of Fowlerville, Livingston county. Her death occurred the same year, and he was married in 1612 to Miss Frances M. Boughton, of Susquehanna county, Pa. They have two children. Mr. Chace is a farmer, and has been more or less intimately connected with the Wyoming County Agricultural Society. He was four or five yearsits general superintendent, and has also been its president
OLIVER C. CHAPMAN, son of Jabez and Chive Chapman, was born in Ver- mont in 1806, and came with his parents to Wyoming county in 1810. In 1838 be married Miss Maria Whitlock, daughter of Samuel and Polly Whitlock, of Warsaw, by whom be bas seven children. From 1806 be has been a resident of Castile, and has been highway commissioner, etc. He is a farmer. His parents came from Vermont with an ox-team to the Genesee country in 1810, being forty days on the road, in the months of October and November.
ROYAL CHASE. son of Darius and Mahala Chase, was born in 1834 in Wash- ington county, N. Y .; , was married in 1860 to Miss A. Fuller, of Castile. He bas been a farmer since 1846. 1
DARIUS CHASE, son Of Royal and Ruth Chase, was born in Rhode Island in 1804. In childhood be removed with his parents to Washington county, N. Y., and in 1826 to. Cayuga county, N. Y. In 1837 be married Miss Mabala Draper, daughter of James and Cynthia Draper. In 1845 he came to Castile and purchased eighty acres of lot 45 Cotringer tract. He has three children living.
LYMAN J. CLARK, born in 1828, In Erie county, N. Y .. was married in 1863 to Miss Eliza Fuller, daughter of Elijah and Martha Fuller, of Castile. She died in 1864, and in 1867 be married Miss H. Minerva Belden, daughter of Paul and Miranda Belden, of Castile. He has two children. He is a farmer. and by trade a wagon maker. He came to Castile in 1836.
JOHN B. CLARK, son of Jacob and Nancy Clark, was born In. 1826 in Cas- tile, where he has since resided. He was married in 1851 to Miss Margaret Kennedy, who died in 1899. In 1878 he married Miss Elizabeth O'Hara, of Cayuga county, N. Y. He is a farmer.
JONAS CLARK, furiner, son of Jacob and Nancy Clark, was born in 1839 in Castile, and was married in 1861 to Miss Roxana Utter, daughter of Sylvester und Betsey Utter. of Castile. He has five children. His father. Jacob Clark. enlisted in the war of 1812, at the age of seventeen years, and received a pension.
DOW I. CLUTE was born in Schenectady in 1818, and was married in 1841 to Miss Sarah B. Sayles, of Castile. They had one child. Mrs. Clute died in 1954, and Mr. Clute married in 1861 Miss Mary Jane Ereland, of Castile. He came to Castile in 1818 with his parents, Dow I. Clute and Ann Clute, who had thirteen children. His father served in the war of 1813, and died at Cas- tile in 1864, aged one hundred years and three months.
LYMAN 8. COLEMAN was born Angust 30th, 1840, in West Haven, Vt .. and wus married to Miss Lucy A. Bliss, of Genesee Falls, N. Y., December 10th, 1830. He came to Castile Station in October. 1800. He and his partner, Orange Taber, are produce dealera. Mr. C. has beld various positions of honor and trust in his town and in the State Legislature.
JOHN W. Cook, son of P. L. and Hannah Cook. of Castile, was born in 13J5 at Castile, and was married to Miss Marette Cook, daughter of Edwin E. und Almira Cook, of Cortland county. He bas three children. He is an ugrent of the Empire Oil Company, of Buffalo.
HENRY L. CUMMINS was born in 1838 in Livingston county, N. Y., and in 1870 was married to Miss Emma Telford,of Castile. He came to Castile in 1848. He is a member of the firm of Hoagland, Cummins & Co., manufacturers of and wholesale and retail dealers in improved chilled plows, cultivators and other agricultural implements. He enlisted in 1800 in Company A. Ist dragoons; was wounded June 11th, 1864, and in July, 1865, he was discharged.
HIRAM DUDLEY was born in 1810 in Plattsburgh, N. Y., and in 1816 came with his parents, Zina and Susan D., to Castile. In 1838 he was married to Miss Polly Horning, of Pike, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Horning. Mr. Dudley is a farmer and mechanic. He has one son, Homer, and lost one in the civil war. His father was constable and collector of Castile for twenty years; died in 1871, aged eighty-nine years.
PHILIP DURYEE, son of James and Francis Duryee, was born in Schenec- tady, N. Y., in 1810, and was married in 1884 to Miss Margaret Sharpeteen, of Leicester, N. Y. She died in 1848, aged twenty-seven years, and be married Miss Rebecca N. Cuykendall, of Skaneateles, N. Y. He bas two children. He came here in 1820. He is a farmer.
PORTER W. FELCH, son of Willis A. and Eunice Felch, was born in 1845 in Castile, and in 1857 was married to Katharine Lock, daughter of Deacon My- ron and Elizabeth Lock, of Castile. He has two children. He is a farmer und partner in the True & Felch livery stable of Castile.
JOHN N. FILCH, son of John and Eunice Felob, was born in Washington county, N. Y., in 1804. and in 1886 came to Castile and settled on lot 11 Cot- ringer tract. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Amy Sayles, of Castile. In 1877 he died, aged seventy-three years, leaving a widow and three children. .
BYRON A. FULLER is a son of Lysander W. and Julia Fuller, who came from Livingston county, N. Y., to Castile. Lysander Fuller died at Castile in 1878, aged forty-nine years. His widow resides with her son, Byron A., at Castile. He is a farmer.
HENRY J. FULLER, a son of Jeremiah and Hannah Fuller, was born in this town in 1887, and married Miss Betsey Akin, of Genesee Falls, in 1808. They have three children, two sons and a daughter. Mr. Fuller is a bar- news maker and general dealer in the specialties pertaining to his line of business.
ALMANZER GAINES, son of Solomon and Sarah Gaines, was born in 1842, and was married to Miss Maggie E. Oliver in 1865. He is by trade a gold- smith, but is proprietor of the Castilian newspaper and job printing office at the Castile station.
ASA W. GIFFORD, born in 1786 in Vermont, is a son of Gideon and Betsey Gifford. His father served through the Revolutionary war. Mr. Gifford bas been married three times. He came to Castile in 1882.
ISAAC GILLETT, son of Jacob and Polly Gillett, was born in 1822, and was married in 1846 to Miss Sarah G., daughter of Dr. Rufus and Laura Whitney, of Gainesville ; he has three children. In 1863 he removed to Perry, and in 1806 bought his present farm. Jacob Gillett, his father, was in the war of 1813.
THEODORE F. GRAY, son of Richard and Mary Gray, was born in Living- ston county, N. Y., in 1836, and was married in 1818 to Miss Mary E. Rood, daughter of James and Betsey Rood, of Castile : he has two sons. He is a farmer, owning the old homestead, on lot 10 Gardeau reservation.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, TOWN OF CASTILE.
RET. ROBERT GRISEWOOD, son of Thomas and Lydia Grisewood, of England, was born in Ontario county, N. Y., in 1807, came with his parents to Castile in 1812 and settled on lot 20 Ogden tract. In 1831 he married Miss Lydia Handiy, of Perry ; they have four children. He is a superannuated preacher in the M. E. church, having been an active and useful minister until age and infirmity compelled him to retire.
ROBERT E. GRISEWOOD, son of Robert and Lydia Grisewood, was born in Castile in 1847, and was married in 1676 to Miss Ada Vetzy, daughter of Mark and Elvira Vetay, of Covington ; they have one child. Mr. Grisewood is a farmer on one hundred acres, being the farm settled by his grandfather, Thomas Grisewood, on lot 39 Ogden tract.
JORK HALSTRAD, a son of Lawrence and Hannah Halstead, was born in Flabkill, Cayuga county, N. Y., in 1799. In 1823 be married Miss Jane Wilses, daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Wilsey. In 1828 he journeyed on foot to Castile and bought his present farm. Hc. bowever, retraced his steps as far as the town of Ledyard. Cayuga county, where he worked a farm on shares for nine years before clearing his own. In 1836 be removed to Castile.
WILLIAM M. HART, son of Solomon R. Hart, was born in Ningara county. N.Y., in 1806, and in 1857 removed to Allegany county. In 1867 be came to Cas- tile and purchased one hundred and four acres southeast of and near Perry village. He was married in 1868 to Miss Jeanie 8. McComber, daughter of Allen and Esther McComber, of Perry. His father, Solomon R. Hart, was born in Berkshire, Mass., in 1804, and now resides in Castile with his son. William, who is a farmer.
MICAH HATHAWAY, son of Royal and Busan Hathaway, was born in Cayuga county, N. Y., in 1885, and was married in 1850 to Mies Cornelia Bottom, daughter of James H. and Alvira Bottom, of Livingston county, N. Y. He is a farmer, and came to reside here in 1866.
GEORGE HESS, son of David and Julietta Hess, was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1822, came to Castile with his parents in 1883, and in 1849 was married to Miss Saloma Townsend, daughter of Abel and Beulah Town- send, by whom he had two children. He is a farmer on one hundred and sixteen acres near Castile village.
DAVID HEBs. son of Peter and Sarah Hess, was born in Saratoga county, N. Y .. in 1797, and was married in 1822 to Miss Julietta, Kellogg, daughter of Elisha and Sarah Kellogg, of that county. Two of his children are now liv- ing. In 1888 be came to Castile and purchased one hundred acres of land. His wife died in 1876, aged seventy-six.
NILES D. HIGGINS, son of Dr. Otis and Hannab Higgins, was born in 1828 in Perry, and was married to Mies Sarah J. Wygant, daughter of Daniel Wygant. of Perry : they have three children. Mr. Higgins is a farmer, and bas a village residence.
BANFORD A. HIGGINS, son of Henry R. and Esther A. Higgins, was born in 1849 in Perry, and in 1872 be was married to Mies Emma A. Karrigar, daughter of Henry and Alvira Karrigar, of Castile. He has three children. He came to Castile in 1899 from Perry, and is a farmer.
DANIEL W. HOUGH, son of Daniel and Hannah Hough, was born in 1848 in Covington, and was married in 1806 to Miss Martha Boughton, daughter of James and Abigail Boughton, of Castile. He has four children. He is a farmer, owning one hundred and forty-ave acres. He came to reside in Castilc in 1849, and has served as town collector two years.
ANBOX HOWARD. son of Samuel and Rachel T. Howard, was born in the town of Bolton, Tolland county, Conn., in 1805, and in 1811 with his father's family came to Perry. He located in Castile in 1829, and was married in 1880 to Miss Hannab C. Hurd. daughter of Ziba and Sally Hurd. Only three of his six children are living. Mr. Howard was by trade a hatter. He was constable and collector six years, postmaster twelve years, and justice of the peane a quarter of a century.
WALTER HOWARD, son of Samuel and Rachel Talcott Howard, was born December 14th, 1802, in Bolton, Conn., and came with his parents to Perry in 1811. He located in Castile in 1828, and was married the following year to Miss Ruth Kinney, of Manchester, Conn. His business ever after locating in Castile was merchandising. He, however, was three years county clerk, and was interested several years in the manufacturing of lumber in Allegany county. He had seven sons and one daughter. The eldest son, George M., a lad of great intellectual promise, died in the summer of 1841. when but eleven years old; and the fourth, Frederick E., a member of Company H, Ist dragoons, was wounded on a scouting expedition in Virginia in 1864, from the effects of which be died April 15th, 1878, aged forty-one years. The others are all living. Mr. Howard himself died June 26th, 1867. Mrs. How- ard continues to occupy the old bomestend.
ZIMA HURD, a son of Daniel and Lucinda Hurd, was born in Tinmouth, Vt., Mas Had. 1785, and married Mies Sally Gilbert, of Bennington, in 1806. Bix of their seven children grew to maturity, and three are still living. Mr. Hurd was the founder of Castile village, as elsewhere related. To him be- longs the bonor of naming the town. He was a justice of the peace many years. His first wife died January 16th, 1841, and he was married the same year to Mies Mary Center. who died January 25th, 1844. Mr. Hurd himself died March 14th, 1854.
NORMAN G. HURD, son of Ziba and Sally Hurd, was born in Tinmouth, Vt., in 1806. He came with his parents to the site of Castile village in the spring of 1816. He was first married in 1829, to Miss Antoinette Curtis, daughter of David and Polly Curtis, of Castile. They had five children, and two are still living. Mr. Hurd moved his family to Illinois in 1841, and thence in
1800 to Kanses. Here .Mrs. Hurd died in 1881, and Mr. Hurd in 1871 mar- Filed Mrs. Boxilian Hurd, of Castile, where he has resided ever since the year 1896.
G. W. Jours, station agent at Castile village, was born in Genesee Falls in 1880, and in 1871 was married to Mies Ermina Briggs, of that town. .
MRS. HARRIET JOSLIN, born in 1804 in Otsego county, N. Y., married in 1819 Wilson Willey. He died in 1855, and she was married to Daniel Joslin, an early settler of the town, who died in Castile in 1800.
HENRY KARRIGAR, son of Peter Karrigar, was born in 1817 in Schobarie county, N. Y. In 1821 his parents removed to Otto. Cattaraugus county, N. Y., and in 1810 he went to Livingston county. He was married in 1848 to Miss Alvira Phelps, of Castile, and came to his present place. He is by trade a house joiner, but since 1817 has been a farmer.
JOHN KEETON, farmer, son of John and Sarah Keeton, was born in Eng- land in 1800; came to America with his parents in 1839, and settled in Castile in 1802. He served three years in the 1st N. Y. mounted rides during the Rebellion. He was married in 1878 to Miss Mary I. Johnson, daughter of James and Maria Johnson, of Castile, and has one child. His wife died in 1874, and he was married in 1676 to Miss Eliss Johnson, sister of his first wife.
JORK P. KELLEY, son of Peter and Deborah Keller, was born in the city of New York in 1810, and married in 1832 to Mies Clarisa A. Goddard, of Shaftsbury, Vt. They settled in Castile in 1833, where Mr. Kelley was a farmer till 1840. He then moved to Moscow, Livingston county, where he spent twenty years in wheat buying. In 1800 be and his wife went to Oak- land, Cal., hoping the change of climate might Improve the health of their only son and child. From 1865 they lived at Rochester, N. Y., till the fall of 1871. They then returned to Castile, where Mr. Kelley died in the spring of 1876. His widow still lives here.
ABAHEL KELLOGG, son of Jacob and Susan Kellogg, was born in Baratoga county, N. Y., in 1818, and came with his parents in 1817 to the place where he now lives. He was married in 1847 to Miss Susan Smith, daughter of Deacon Esra B. and Harriet Smith, of Castile, and be has two sons and two daughters.
EZRA A. KILAZY, son of Charles C. and Sarah Kelsey, was born in Addison county, Vt., in 1819, and was married in 1811 to Miss Jane Kimball, daughter of James and Mary Kimball, of Hague, N. Y. She died in 1845, leaving one daughter. Mr. Kelsey was married in 1848 to Mies Harriet Kimball, of St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They have four children. In 1842 be removed from Vermont to St. Lawrence county, N. Y. In 1806 be bought and removed to his present farm. He is a trustee of the Wyoming County Pioneer Asso- alation.
RALPH KENDALL, [800 of Elijah and Nancy Kendall, was born in Turin, Lewis county, N. Y., in the year 1808, and came with his parents in 1813 to the town of York, Livingston county, and in 1816 to Covington. Here be was married in 1884 to Mies Sallaina Clute. They had three sons and two daughters, all of whom are now living. Mr. Kendall moved to Castile in the spring of 1869, and has now retired from a large to a smaller farm, to enjoy the remnant of life in comparative quietude and comfort.
AMOS KINGSLEY, son of Solomon and Esther Kingsley, was born in 1818 in Attica, and was married in 1888 to Miss Pamelia Bigelow, of Genesee Falls. In 1847 he came to Castile to reside. He is a farmer, and has served as superintendent of common schools, ecc. His father served as captain of cavalry at Buffalo in the war of 1812.
JOHN D. LANDON, son of Jeremiah and Rebecca Landon, was born in Wil- Hamstown, Berkshire, Mass., January 1st, 1800, and came to Perry about 1831. He rose from captain to brigadier-general of militia. He was married to Mies Eliza Dodge, of Leroy, Genesee county, January 7th, 1827. General Landon came to Castile about 18%, engaging first in the mercantile business. but soon abandoned it for building and botel keeping. His hotel is now the front of Mies Groene's Cure. The general was not only popular as a land- lord, but equally so as a man. He was intuitively a scholar and a gentle- man. He was many times elected a justice of the peace, being never de- feated. Mrs. Landon died May 29th, 1849, and the general followed ber in June, 1865.
RALPH LAKE, son of David and Jerusha Lake, was born in Albany, N. Y., in 1799. In 1896 be married Mies Maria, daughter of Uriand Gedida Doolittle. of Stratford, Conn. They have five living children. He came to Oneida county with his parents, and remained there until 1836, when be removed to Perry, N. Y. In 1833 he came to Castile and settled on lots 57 and 56 Ogden tract, buying seventy sores.
HORACE J. LARY was born in 1844 in Jefferson county, N. Y., and in 1859 was married to Mies Ella J. Brown, daughter of Luther and Hannah Brown, of Wethersfield, N. Y. He came to Castile in 1848, and is proprietor of a res- taurant and billiard saloon at the Castile station.
BENJAMIN LUCAS, son of Ralph and Hannab Lucas, was born in 1797 in . Washington county, N. Y., and was married to Miss Almira Rich. They have two children. Mr. Lucas came to Castile in 1825, and died in 1002. He was a farmer.
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