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PETER V. LUCAS, son of Ralph and Hannah Lucas, was born in 1802, and was married in 1883 to Miss Mary Thayer, daughter of Willard and Phebe Thayer, of Gainesville. He came to Castile in 1806, and died in 1878. He was a farmer, and beld various town offices.
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MYRON LUCE was born in 1821 in Seneca county, N. Y., and was married in 1844 to Miss Mary A. Card, of Ossian. His second wife was Mary Adams, his third Mrs. Van Arsdote, of Castile, and his fourth Miss Esther A. Rood, of Castile. He setted in Castile in 1834, and is a farmer.
WILLIAM J. PALMER, son of Alton and Harriet Palmer, was born in Scipio, Cayuga county, In 1887, and came with his parents to Perry in 1830. In 1865 be removed to Castile and purchased part of his present farm. He was mar- ried in 1854 to Miss Marilla Toan, daughter of Thomas and Betsey Toan, of Perry, and bas four children.
LUTHER E. PELTON, son of Cole and Esther Pelton, was born in 1808 in Franklin county, Mass., and was married in 1826 to Miss Eunice Dodge, daughter of Content and Silas Dodge. He removed to Leicester, N. Y., in 1836, and to Castille in 1844. He is a farmer, and has been an assessor for twenty-five years.
JOHN PINNOCK, Castile, son of Zeiah and Lydia Pennook, was born in 1794, in Vermont, and in 1881 was married to Miss Ruth Howard, of Middle- bury, N. Y.
E. PALMER PHELPS Was born February 17th, 1824. in Leicester, N. Y., and in 1896 came to Castile with his parents, Elam and Eunice Phelps. In 1816 be married Miss Anna Beach, of Castile, and has one child. Mr. Phelps is among the most thrifty and independent farmers of Castile, and devotes part of his spare winter time to teaching vocal music and holding musical con ventions.
DANIEL 8. PICKETT, son of James R. and Betsey Pickett, was born in Castile in 1827, and in 1851 was married to Eliza I. Graves, daughter of Joseph and Mary Graves, of Castile, formerly of Great Britain. He is a farmer and dealer in labor saving agricultural implements at Castile village. His father. James R. Pickett, married Betsey Cross, and in March, 1818, re- moved to Castile and articled ,fifty acres on Jot 16 Cotringer tract. He faithfully and honestly served his town in omces of trust.
GEORGE F. PIERCE, con of Benjamin and Lydia Gurley Pierce, was born in Brooklyn, Conn., April 14th, 1802. On leaving his native State he went first to Livonia, Livingston county, N. Y., where he was a clerk for his brothers about a year, in the dry goods trade : then after working several years in Mt. Morris he came to Castile in the fall of 1884, and bought the mill originally built and rua by Elijah Burr. In 1886 be built a new mill, which was the beginning of the mill now owned and run by the Meesrs. Hopkins.
EDWARD A. PIERCE, son of David and Elizabeth Pierce, was born in Brooklyn, Conn., January 12th, 1811, and came with his parents to Castile in the spring of 184. During the Rebellion be served in Company F. 7th Mass. He was honorably discharged in July, 1831. In March, 1867, be was married to Miss Jane Lynch, of Wyandotte, Kansas. They have two children, a son and daughter. Mr. Pierce was elected supervisor in 1875, and still holds the office.
NORMAN W. POND, & son of Seavy and Prudence Pond, was born in this town in 1881. and was married in 1865 to Miss Louisa J., daughter of Daniel and Lucy Loper, of the same place. Two of bis four children are living. Mr. Pond was a Union soldier in 1865. Mrs. Pond died in 1809, aged thirty-six years, and Mr. Pond was married in 1871 to Miss Mary L. Ogden, of Grove- land, Livingston county. He is by trade a carpenter and joiner, but is now a grocer.
BELA POST, a son of Aaron and Elizabeth Post. was born in Versbier, Vt .. in 1797, and came with his parents to Castile in 1818. In 1828 be was married to Miss Melissa Beiden, daughter of Simeon and Calcina Beiden, of Castile, another Vermonter by birth. Mr. and Mrs. Post raised thirteen children, all of whom are still living. Aaron D., born in 1850, and the youngest of the thirteen, is still living on the old homestead.
AVERY RAPPELLER, son of James and Betsy Rappelles, was born in Milo, Yaten county, N. Y., in 1808, and was married in 1830 to Miss Marilla Town- send, daughter of Uriah and Fanny Townsend, of Seneca county, N. Y. He has three children living. In 1807 he removed his family to Castile, and bought part of his present farm.
JAMES H. RATHBONE, farmer, son of James Rathbone, was born In the town of Rhinebeck, Dutchess county, N. Y .. in 1890; went to Erie county in 1838, and in 1866 came to Castile and settled on lot 71 Ogden tract. He was married in 1868 to Miss Elizabeth Dildine, daughter of Zachariah and Sarab Dildine, of Dansville, N. Y., and be bas two sons.
REV. JAMES REED was born at Saratoga, N. Y., April 20th, 1791. After receiving the rudiments of education in the district school of the carly set- tlement of Saratoga, be engaged as clerk in a store. In 1814 be married Betsy Crawford, and in 1817 emigrated to Gainesville and engaged in survey- ing and school teaching,together with clearing a new farm. In 1818 be united with the Baptist church. In 1823 be was ordained to the ministry. In 1886 his first wife died, and he married Sina Jones. In 1834 and 1536 he was a mis- domary in Allegany county. He died November 27th, 1867, aged sixty-six years. Eight hundred persons were baptized and many churches planted by him, and he was regarded as the father of the Castile church.
LEVI RIDER was born in Springwater. N. Y., in 1881. and was married in 1864 to Miss Mary J. Brainard, daughter of Day and Emily Brainard, of Gainesville ; they have two children. Mr. Rider carries on a farm of
ninety-five acres. He came to Castile in 1867, and his father, Ruggles Rider in 1838. The latter died at Castile in 1846, aged forty years. His widow stii lives.
JAMES RIDSDALE, son of Miles and Jane Ridsdale, was born in Perry in 1831. In 1852 he went to Obio and purchased eighty acres of land. In 1806 be returned to Castile, and bought the homestead of his father, on which be now resides. He was married in 1844 to Miss Laura A. Williams, of Ohio; daughter of Elisha and Hannab Williams. He has dve children.
ELIHU ROBINSON, son of John and Hope Robinson, was born in Washing- ton county, N. Y .. in 1786; removed with his parents to Solpio, Cayuga county, in 1811, and in 1825 came to Castile. In 1826 he bought eighty acres of wild land in section 6 of the Gardeau reservation. He was married in 1827 to Miss Ann Beardsley, daughter of Jared and Betsey Beardsley, of Ca- yuga county, N. Y .. and has one child, Mrs. Augustus Tuber, with whom be now resides. His wife died in 1855, aged afty four years.
JOHN ROBINSON. son of John and Hope Robinson, was born in Washing- ton county, N. Y., in 1811 : removed with his parents to Sciplo. N. Y., and in 1860 came to Castile and bought his present farm. He married In 1886 Miss Mary A. Beardsley, daughter of Jared and Betsey Beardsley, of Scipio, and has three children.
CHESTER S. ROOD, son of James and Betsey Rood, was born in Cayuga county, N. Y., in 1811, and came to Castile in 1841. In 1835 he was married to Miss Martha Aram, of Perry, daughter of Mathias and Elizabeth Aram. They have three living children. He is a farmer, owning sixty-five acres. His son. James E, enlisted in 1864 in Company A, Ist N. Y. Dragoons, and was at the battles of the Wilderness, Squirrel Ridge, Beaver Dum, Yellow Tavern and at Deep Bottom, where he was disabled by sun stroke, and died at City Point, Va., from its effects in 1804.
ISAAC ROOD, farmer, son of James and Betsey Rood, was born in Cayuga county, N. Y., in 1828, and came with his parents to Perry and to Castile in 1841. He was married in 1866 to Miss Agnes Skillen, daughter of James and Martha Skillen, and has two children, Rebeccs and Frank.
ALONZO B. Ross was born in the town of Lisle, Broome county, N. Y., February 7th, 1799. In 1818 he came to Castile. Subsequently to bis arrival bere be devoted a portion of his time to teaching ; he was in fact one of the pioneers in Webster, Daboll, Morse, and Murray. Mr. Rose was married in 1834 to Miss Faithful Groendycke of Lima, Livingston county. They had six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom grew to maturity. Two of the daughters still survive. One of the sons was instantly killed near the close of the "Seven Days fight " in front of Richmond. Judge Rose was elected to the office of magistrate the first year the people were trusted with such responsibility, and successively thereafter till 1841, when he was made associate justice. He was, however, still later oboson magis- trate from time to time, until be had held that office nearly or quite a quarter of a century, He was elected to the Assembly in 1858 and 1854, serving each term to the entire satisfaction of his constituency. He has beld many minor offices, and was one of the stalwarts in the temperance enterprise.
JAMES S. SANFORD, son of Clark and Mary A. Sanford, was born in this town in 1821, and was married in 1844 to Miss Caroline A. Gray, daughter of Richard and Polly Gray, of Castile; they had one child. His wife Caroline died in 1860, and in 1802 he married Miss Mary A. Smallwood, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Smallwood, of Warsaw. Two of their children are now living. Mr. Sanford died in Washington, D. C., in 1876, where he bold an office in the post-office department.
ERWIN SANFORD, son of Freeman and Cynthia Sanford, was born in Cas- tile in 1824, and was married in 1819 to Miss Elizabeth Vanslyke. daughter of Henry and Hannah Vanslyke, of Perry : they had three children. He re- mained on the homestead until he died, aged fifty-two years. His father, Freeman Sanford, came from Connecticut and settled in Castile in 1816, and married Miss Cynthia Bowers. Erwin was their only child.
HENRY D. SAYLES was born in 1824 at Pinkney; Lewis county, and came to Castile in 1834. He married Emmerancy T. Minor, of Castile, in 1849. He is a farmer.
JOHN R. SAYLES, farmer. con of James and Ruth Sayles, was born in Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1822, and came with his parents to Castile in 1896. In 1849 he married Miss Emeline C., daughter of Russell and Emily Calkins, of Castile, and has one child. He has served nine years successively as com- missioner of highways.
GIDEON SCOFIELD, son of Gideon and Abigail Scofield, was born in Albany county, N. Y., in 1802, and was married in 1824 to Miss Permelia Wescott, daughter of John and Eunice Wescott, of Saratoga county, N.Y. He came to Castile in 1806 and has followed farming. He has been a magistrate and overseer of the poor, and is elder in the Presbyterian church in Castile. Deacon Scofield has during his long residence in Castile occupied the front " rank among the anti-slavery and temperance workers.
----- XILES SHARPSTEEN. son of Samuel and Margaret Sharpsteen, was born in 1823 In Cayuga county, N.Y., and was married in 1848 to Miss Julia L. Davis, of Livingston county, who died in 1877, aged forty-eight years, leaving one toni Miles Sharpsteen has been a resident of Castile since 1313, and is a farmer.
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E. PALMER PHELPS.
MRS. ANNA PHELPS.
RESIDENCE OF E. PALMER PHELPS, CASTILE, N. Y.
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ELAM PHELPS
RES.OF ELAM PHELPS, DECEASED, CASTILE, N .Y.
MRS. ELAM PHELPS.
RESIDENCE OF CHAS. TALLMAN, CASTILE, N. Y.
RESIDENCE OF E. G. MATTHEWS, PERRY, N. Y.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, TOWN OF CASTILE.
WALTER BRAY was born in Boston, Mass .. in 1819; in 1837 be removed to Allegany county, N. Y., and remained there until 1810, when he removed to Eagle, Wyoming county. He was two years supervisor of that town. In 1850 he was married to Miss Caroline F. Gally, of Nunda, N. Y., by whom be bad two children. In 1868 be engaged in mercantile business at Eagle Vil- lage. He was a United States assistant assessor for the 20th district for nine years from 1802. In 1878 be removed to Castile village, and was there elected a justice of the peace.
PHILO SHELDON, son of Isaac and Sally Sheldon, was born in the town of Pawlet, Vt., in 1806, and married Miss Henriette Edgerton, of the same place, in 1880. They have bad five children, three of whom are living. Mr. Sheldon came to Cayuga county, N. F., in 182%, and thence to Castile in 1866. His son William was in the United States service three years during the war of the Rebellion, and was honorably discharged.
NORMAN SIMONS, son of Silas and Hannah Simons, was born in Connecti- cut in 1807, and in 1829 came to Castile. In 1838 be married Miss Lucinda Phelps, daughter of Eldad and Abigail Phelps, of Castile. They have three children. In 1831 Mr. Simons bought his present farm.
JOSIAH BLADE, son of Joseph and Rhoda Slade, was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., in 1821. In 1886 he moved to Madison county, N. Y., and in 1846 came to Castile, where he has since 1858 been employed as a dealer in produce and in Scotch and American granite. He was married in 1860 to Miss Martha A. Scott, daughter of Isaac and Mary Scott, of Allegany county, N. Y. Of his five children Mary I. Slade, M. D., is a graduate of the Ann Arbor Medical Institute.
PETER L. SMITH, son of Isaac and Lydia Smith, was born in Genesee Falls in 1844. and was married in 1809 to Mies Mary L., daughter of William B. and P. Wiseman, of Gainesville. He has two children. He came to Castile in 1876, and is a farmer. His parents came west from Dutchess county, and settled on new land in Genesee Falls. His father died in 1875, aged eighty- three years.
DAVIS W. SMITH was born in Vermont in 1815. and in 1835 removed to Troy. N. Y., where he graduated as a law student. In 1888 he came to Castile, and kept a select school until the spring of 1855, when falling health required iteclose. In 1841 he was married to Miss Emily S. Welles, of Castile, daughter of Israel and Emily S. Welles, of Connecticut. She died in 1872, leaving two cons and a daughter. who are still living. Mr. Smith continues to reside on the spot where he spent the prime of live.
HARRISON W. SMITH was born in 1826 in Livingston county, N. Y., and was married in 1848 to Nancy I. Mills, of that county. He came to Castile in 1857, and is an attorney and counselor at law at the village. Of his six chil- dren one son. Frederick, is practicing law on Main street ; another, E. C. Smith, is a druggist at Castile, and a third, Charles J. Smith, is a dry goods merchant at Castile.
S. CHESTER SMITH, M. D., a son of Ezra B. and Harriet Smith, was born in Preston, Conn., in 1888, and came with his parents in 1834 to Castile. He graduated in medicine at New York in 1800, and was a surgeon in the navy until 1864, when he resigned. He was married to Miss Lida Van Aradale, daughter of Abram and Maria Van Arsdale, of Castile, in 1808. They have one child, a boy, about ten years old. Dr. Smith is now practicing at Castile.
RET. WILLIAM HENRY SNYDER, son of Dr. Andrew and Lydia Snyder, was born in the town of Hurley, Ulster county, N. Y., in 1794. About 1829 he became pastor of a Dutch Reformed church in Fayette, Seneca county, N. Y. He was married in 1827 to Miss Harriet Sturtivant, daughter of Zebi- dee and Jerusha Sturtivant, of Columbia county, N. Y. He has bad one son and three daughters. The daughters are still living. After some ten years of professional life, ill bealth compelled him to abandon the pulpit and go to farming : he died in 1874. Mrs. Snyder still lives at the old homestead.
JOHN SOWERBY, son of George and Elizabeth Sowerby, was born in York- shire, England, id' 1808. In 1828 he came to Geneva. N. Y., and in 1889 to Cas- tile, and settied on lot 48 Ogden tract. He was married in 1832 to Miss Jane Brown, daughter of Thomas and Mary Brown, and has six children. He is a farmer.
CHARLES STRONG, son of Eliphalet and Sally Strong, was born in 1812 in Northampton, Mass. In 1845 be married Miss Christine Eveland, of Living. ston county, N. Y. In 1835 he came to Castile, where he is now enguged in farming. In 1861 his first wife died, and in 1864 be married Miss Arminda Stone, of Orangeville, N. Y. They have four children.
THOMAS H. and CHARLES SUTHERLAND, of the firm of T. H. Sutberland & Co., are sons of George and Mary A. Sutherland, and were born in the town of Hamilton, Canada West-Thomas H. February 1st, 1855, and Charles Feb- ruary 28th, 1859. They came with their parents to Castile in 1878. Charles was married to Miss Mary M. Sears, of Caneaden, Allegany county, August, 1878. The brothers are the present proprietors of the Castile Marble and Granite Works, a few doors east of the corner of Main and Water streets.
HARMON E. TABER, son of Colonel Stephen D. and Percy P. Taber, was born in 1840 at Castile, and was married in 1870 to Miss Jennie Pettibone, of Michigan. He owns a first class farm of one hundred and thirty-dve sores on the Gardenu reservation.
FRANCIS M. TABER, son of Colonel Stepben D. and Percy P. Taber, was born in 1889 in Castile, and in 1863 was married to Miss Susan D. Robinson, of Castile ; they have two children. Mr. Taber is a farmer, having one hundred and fifty acres of the old Gardeau reservation. His father was born at Broadalbin, N.Y., in 1796, and came to Perry in 1817, and from there to Castile in 1882. He was for many years supervisor of Castile, and also a loan com- missioner. He died in 1871, aged seventy-three years, bonored and respected by all who knew him.
ORANGE M. TABER, son of Gideon and Elpha Taber, was born in 1825 in Perry, and was married in 1868 to Miss Loretta E. Curtiss, of Geauga county, O. She died in 1834, and in 1866 he married Mrs. Cynthia D. Pettibone, of Warsaw. Mr. Taber is justice of the peace, and a member of the firm of Coleman & Taber, who have a storehouse and are large produce dealers at Castile station. Mr. Taber's father died in Castile in 1861, aged ninety years.
DAVID TAGGART, son of David and Sarah Taggart, was born in Washing- ton county, N. Y., in 1802, and th 1827 came to Castile and bought the farm lately occupied by him. He married Mies Betsey Woodruff of Gainesville, who died in 1274. He died in 1876, leaving to his son and daughter, who still reside on the homestead, one of the most attractive suburban farm resi- dences in Castile.
CHARLES TALLMAN, son of Lewis and Julia Tallman, was born in 1881 in Genesee Falls. He married in 1857 Miss Sarah Belden, daughter of Paul and Miranda Beiden, of Castile, and has two children. He came to Castile to re- side in 1871, and is a farmer. Mr. Tallman is descon of the Baptist church at Castile, and a grandson of Deacon Charles Tallman, an early settler of this town.
FRANK G. TALLMAN, son. of Benson and Sophia Tallman, was born at Cas- tile in 1839, and was married in 1800 to Miss Laverna Allen, of Gainesville. He is a member of the firm of Hoagland, Cummins & Co., manufacturers of and wholesale dealers in plows, barrows, cultivators and other improved farming implements connected with their iron foundry at Castile village.
BENSON TALLMAN, son of Charles and Esther Tallman, was born in Dela- ware county, N. Y., in 1812, and came with his parents to Castile in 1817, since which time he has resided bere. He was married in 1883 to Miss Sophia Carlisle, daughter of William and Nancy Carlisle, of Castile, and they have three children. He has beld the office of assessor of the town for twenty years, and has been a descon of the Baptist church in Castile for thirty years. He is by occupation a farmer. His father came with an ox team, being two weeks on the journey. The father, Charles Tallman, was a deacon of the Baptist church, and held the offices of supervisor and justice of the peace of Castile.
CAPTAIN ELIAS TALLMAN, son of Giles Tallman, was born in Delaware county, N. Y., in 1815, and came with his parents in 1816 to Castile with an ox- team. He settled on lot 59 Ogden tract, and was married in 1839 to Miss Cynthia Mattison, daughter of Jeremiah and Barbara Mattison, who came to Castile in 1822 from Vermont. Captain Taliman has four children, two of whom served in the war of the Rebellion. He wasat the age of seventeen at Buffalo with his regiment during the Patriot war, and he afterward became captain of the same artillery company. His father served in the war of 1813. for which his widow still receives a pension. Captain Tallman is a farmer' on the old homestead of one hundred acres, and has discharged the duties of various offices of honor and trust in his town.
JOHN A. THOMPSON was born in 1824 in Allegany county, N. F., and mar- ried Miss Jane A. Wheat, of Centerville, N. Y., in 1849. He came to Castile in 1863. He is a retired merchant, and is manufacturing cheese in twelve factories, and buying and shipping butter, cheese and wool at Castile station.
IRA TRUE, son of Samuel and Zeruiah True, was born in Vermont in 1799 and in 1815 came to Wyoming county with his parents and their effects, with two ox-teams and one borse, being forty-two days on a journey of four hundred miles. In October Mr. True arrived in Covington and articled eighty acres of wild land. They slept in their covered wagons until they bad erected a log house. In the spring of 1816 they sold out for one hundred dollars, and purchased sixty acres in Perry. In 1826 Ira True was married to Miss Judith Nevins, of Perry, and in 1880 be removed to his late farm in Castile. He died in 1879, aged eighty years, leaving a widow and five children. Dr. Jacob True, his son, residing on the farm, is an electro-theuraputist practitioner. and is successfully treating diseases at his residence.
WILLIAM D. TRUE, son of Stepbea D. and Mary True, of Castile, was born in this town in 1836, and in 1861 was married to Miss Ella Bogart, daughter of Dr. Gilbert and Catharine Bogart, of Genesee Falls. He is a farmer and a partner in the True & Felch livery business.
JOSEPH W. TRUE, a son of William and Sally True, was born in Hardwick, Vt., in 1811, and came with his parents to Covington in 1814. The trip took twenty-five days, an ox team being the motor. Mr. True left Covington and settled in Castile in 1888, and was married to Miss Dorcas Gilbert, of the latter place, in 1888. The more active part of his life was very successfully spent in the undertaking and the furniture business, from which he bes retired.
HORACE WADSWORTH, farmer, was born in 1832 in Farmersville, N. Y., and in 1857 was married to Miss Martha Brainard, daughter of David and Emily Brainard, of Gainesville. He bes one child.
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FRANCIS M. WARNER was born in Windsor, N. Y., in 1845, and was married in 1867 to Miss Sarah L. Nash, of Perry. He came to Castile in 1868, and bought a farm of eighty-one acres on lot 55, Cotringer tract.
WHEELER R. WARRINER, son of Chester and Drusilla Warriner, was born in Gainesville in 1812, and was married in 1835 to Miss Angeline Willcox, daughter of Robert and Sally Willcox, of Castile. She died in 1856, and be married, in 1856, Mrs. Jane Lucas, of Castile, daughter of Conrad and Mag- dalena Vanliew, of Gainesville. Mr. Warriner has been assessor of Castile for twelve years, and has lived in the town since 1866. He is a farmer. Post-office, Gainesville.
DAVID A. WALLACE was born in this town in 1821, and is the son of David D. and Hannah Wallace. In 1848 he married Sarab Ely, daughter of John B. and Jane Ely; of Gainesville; and of his nine children eight are living. Mr. Wallace has always been a farmer and a resident of this town, excepting eight years in Michigan-1850-58. His father was born in 1792 in Maseachu- setts, and in 1816 settled in Castile. His first wife was Hannah Moon, of Scipio, N. Y., by whom he had four children, three of whom are living. She died in 1881, and in 1882 Mr. Wallace married Elizabeth Grisewood, who bore him one child. On her death, in 1848, he married Permelia Sanford, who died in 1874. Mr. Wallace died in 1870.
GEORGE WHEELER, son of Jesse and Polly Wheeler, was born in Keene, N. H., November 8th, 1790. He learned the trade of wool carding and cloth
dressing at Littleton, N. H., and on coming of age engaged in the business for himself at that place. In 1815 be removed to Paris, Oneida county, N. Y., and in 1818 to Lisle, Broome county, where be prosecuted his original busi- news twenty-two years. He next pursued milling for eight years. In 1848 he located at East Pike, owning and running the stone mill at that place. He moved to Castile in 1856. Farming, sawing, planing and lath and shingle-making have come in for a sbare of his attention. Mir. Wheeler was first married to Miss Betsy Sartwell, of Littleton, N. H., in 1823. They bad four children, two of whom survive. Mrs. Betsy Wheeler died in Cas- tile in 1861, aged sixty-seven years. Mr Wheeler was married in 1862 to Mrs. Tursey Gould. of Nunda, Livingston county. She died in Castile October 14th, 1879, aged seventy-six years. He was justice of the peace in Lisle six- teen years, and was one of the associate judges of Broome county, and one of the commissioners for building the court-house and jail of that county. He became a brigadier-general of militia, was a member of the Legislature, and postmaster at Upper Lisle twenty years.
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