USA > New York > Erie County > Sardinia > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 43
USA > New York > Erie County > Collins > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 43
USA > New York > Erie County > Concord > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 43
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Jennie A., born Feb. 23, 1846; died Dec. IS, 1874.
Octavia A., born Oct. IS. 1857 ; died Dec 29, 1875.
Etta Ann, born June 2, 1864.
Frank W., born March 28, 1869.
Samuel J,, born March 8, 1871.
Matthew Weber.
Matthew Weber was born in the town of Frankfort, Herki- mer county, N. Y , Dec. 4, 1818 ; came to the town of Ashford, Cattaraugus county, in 1836; is a farmer. Was married in 1841 to Betsey Hemstreet. He has lived in Concord about twenty years. His father's name was Jacob Weber; his mother's maiden name was Margaret Williams. He says: "At the beginning of the revolutionary war my grandfather, John Weber, was in the Continental army, and at an early period in the war was killed with his party by Indians in ambush. After killing grandfather the same band of Indians went to his house and drove grandmother, with the family of seven children, out
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of the house; they allowed grandmother to go into the cellar to get a loaf of bread. She got the bread and a kettle and some meal in the kettle and they went to the woods and staid that night and next morning their cow came to them and they had milk. The Indians took all that was of use and burned the house. Grandmother and the children were taken to Fort Herkimer, near Little Falls." They had four children :
Ellen Elizabeth, born Nov. 8, 1842.
Ann Eliza, born May 22, 1843 ; married Sept. 24, 1868 to A. W. Ferrin ; died Feb. 14, 1872.
Blanchard B., born April 16, 1848 ; married Dec. 28, 1868 to Phalena L. Ferrin.
Lucretia N., born May 4, 1865 ; died April 28, 1865.
The Wheeler Family.
The Wheelers came here in the Spring of 1816, and Joshua Sr. died nine years after. They located at the foot of Town- send Hill.
The children of Joshua Sr., were :
Benjamin, who married Sally Perry, and died May 19, 1860, aged eighty-two; his wife died Feb. 16, 1865, aged eighty years.
Joshua died many years ago.
Pliny married Martha King, and is now living in Little Val- ley, Cattaraugus county.
Silas is living in Little Valley, Cattaraugus county.
Clarissa married a man by the name of Collar.
Betsy married James Stratton ; is dead.
Patty married Uzial Townsend ; is dead.
Polly married Suel Townsend; is dead.
Fanny married John Gould and is living West.
Hittia married John Loomis ; is dead.
The children of Benjamin Sr. were :
Acsah married Noah Townsend, and lives on Townsend Hill.
Alanson married Diademia Townsend; both died in the Spring of 1883.
Mary married Allan Drake and lives in Milwaukee.
Sally married Hosea Townsend, and died soon after her mar_ riage.
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Samuel married Hannah Flemmings; after her death, he married Sarah Ashman and lives in this town.
Betsy married N. A. Godard, and died Nov. 17, 1845, aged thirty-two years.
Benjamin Jr. married first Sally Yaw ; after her death he mar- ried Mary Childs, and lives in Concord.
Porter lives in Springville.
Almeda lives in Springville.
John B. Wells.
John B. Wells, son of J. T. Wells was born March 1, 1840, in Concord, of which town he has always been a resident; his occupation is farming. He was married March 1, 1863, to An- nis M. Pierce.
. They have six children, viz .:
George M., born June 1, 1864.
Maggie L., born July 28, 1865.
Ida, born Jan. 8, 1868.
James E., born Aug. 17, 1871.
Leslie J., born June 1, 1873.
John, born Aug. 20, 1878.
Samuel Wheeler.
Samuel Wheeler was born in Massachusetts, July 12, 1810. Came to this town with his parents in 1816; has resided in town since that time : is a farmer and mechanic. He was married Nov. 14, 1833, to Hannah Flemmings.
Their children living are :
Maryette, born 1835 ; married Horace Wilson ; lives in Min- nesota.
Benjamin, born 1838.
Samuel, born 1840; lives in this town.
His wife died and he afterwards married Sarah A. Ashman, in 1842. Their children are :
Albert T., born 1844.
Sarah A., born 1848; married, in 1866, to Harvey Richard- son ; lives in Aurora.
Helen M., born in 1850 ; married, in 1875, to G. W. Wilson ; lives in this town.
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Alma S., born in 1853; married in 1876, to W. H. Tichenor ; lives in Springville.
Amaziah A. married Dolly Waite; lives in Concord.
Ellen T.
Huram Wickham.
Huram Wickham was born in Montgomery county, N. Y., Aug. 30, 1865. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, and came to the Town of Collins in 1825 ; here he followed his trade for several years. But for the last thirty years his atten- tion has been directed more or less to farming.
In 1833, he was united in marriage to Miss Louise Irish, and three children were born to them, viz :
Marinda, born Nov. 25, 1833.
Chauncy L., born Aug. 11, 1839.
Matilda, born July 2, 1848.
In his younger days, Mr. Wickham had a great taste for hunting, and he relates the incidents of a squirrel hunt that took place in Collins in 1830. Two sides were chosen, consisting of eight hunters on a side, and the party that scored the most points by producing the tails of the game secured, were de- clared the victors. Timothy Clark was one of the captains and his brother William the other. The men who were with Tim- othy were as follows: Hiram Wickham, Ralph Cohley, Ben- jamin Albro, Howard Albro and three others. Those who were with William Clark were: Jake Palmer, Rufus Col- burn and five others, making eight on a side. About 4 o'clock P. M. the hunters came in and the scores counted up, and it was found that Timothy Clark's side were victorious by over one hundred counts, and the day's sport wound up by an old fashioned game of base ball, in which Timothy Clark's men again came off victorious. He was also one of those who engaged in the great wolf hunt of 1830.
In the Spring of 1880 Mr. Wickham sold his farm in Collins and bought the old Morton homestead at Morton's Corners. Here he and his venerable companion expected to pass the evening of their life together, but man proposes and fate dis- poses. Mr. Wickham was taken sick in the Fall of 1882, which resulted in death a few weeks after.
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Samuel Wheeler, Jr.
Samuel Wheeler, Jr., son of Samuel and Hannah Wheeler, was born Jan. 25. 1840, in Concord, where he has since resided. At present he is proprietor of a blacksmith shop at Morton's Corners. Mr. Wheeler at a very early age displayed rare tal- ents for the mechanical arts, and though he never learned a trade, yet there is scarcely anything but what he can construct out of wood or metal. His shop is a model of neatness and convenience ; the most of his tools being the work of his own hands. He was married April 25, 1863, to Miss Caroline Bea- sor, daughter of Christian Beasor.
They have one child :
Alta F., born Jan. 19, 1877.
Frank Weismantle.
Frank Weismantle was born in Bavaria in 1842. His father's name was George Weismantle ; his mother's maiden name was Margaret K. -. He came to this country in the year 186[. In the year 1865 he went in company with his brother Peter, and they carried on the blacksmithing business together for nine years. In 1874 he built the shop No. II Mechanic street, where he has since conducted the business alone. In 1865 he was married to Miss Mary M. Fox.
Their children were :
George F.
Frederick William, who died, aged one year.
Edward, who died in 1877, aged seven years.
Lottie, Clara, Frankie S., John.
William Wright.
William Wright was born in Vermont in the year 1767, and came here in the Spring of 1814 and settled on lot thirty-four, township seven, range six, where Mr. Bloodgood lives. He lived there until 1827 and then moved to lot twenty-nine, where Abram Gardenier now lives. He sold out to Abram Gardenier in 1837 and went to Sardinia to live with his son Reuben. They all went away from this town about forty years ago, most of them going West. William Wright died in Sardinia in 1841 ; his wife died in 1839; they were buried in the old ceme- tery in Springville.
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William Wright's children were :
Oliver, dead.
Reuben, lives in Fredonia, N. Y., aged eigty-two.
Rebecca, dead.
Stanbury, lives in Morrison, Col., aged seventy-eight.
Charles, dead. Stephen, dead.
Mary lives at Gardner, Ill., aged seventy.
Sally, dead.
John A. Wilson.
John A. Wilson was born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1805. He married Miss Rebecca Minott, who was born in Brattleboro. in 1810. About 1835, they moved to Ashford, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., and settled there. In 1849, they removed to Concord, where he has since resided.
They had ten children :
Warren W. married Susan Metcalf, and lives in Bath, Steu- ben county, N. Y.
Horace married Mariette Wheeler, and lives in Minneapolis, Minn.
Mary married Augustus Chafee, and lives in Springville.
John married Carrie Bull, and died in Bath, Steuben county, N. Y.
George married Hattie Moore; she died, and he married Helen Wheeler ; he lives in Concord.
Charlie married Hattie Blanchard, and lives in Glencoe. Minn.
Wallace married Mollie Blossom, and lives in Buffalo.
Sophia married Edward Bement, and lives in Springville.
Ella married Alonzo Hadley, and lives in Springville.
Ida married Henry Severance and lives in Springville.
Mrs. Wilson died in Concord in 1876.
Mr. Wilson is now living with his son George, in Concord.
The Wadsworth Family.
William Wadsworth came from England in 1632, and settled in Hartford, Conn., 1635, and died there in 1675.
Capt. Joseph Wadsworth, son of William, preserved the
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Charter of Connecticut in the historic oak, Oct. 31, 1687. He died in 1729.
Sergt. Jonathan Wadsworth, son of Joseph, died 1739.
Capt. Jonathan Wadsworth, Jr., was killed at the Battle of Saratoga, Sept. 19, 1777.
Henry Wadsworth, son of Jonathan, died Oct. 13, 1821.
Richard Wadsworth, son of Henry, married Ann McLean. They moved from Connecticut to Canandaigua, and from there moved to Buffalo in 1815, and to Springville in 1833. He was a cabinet-maker by trade. Richard Wadsworth died April 1, 1861 ; his wife died Oct. 15, 1859.
Their children were: Walter, Henry T., Anna Maria, Fred- erick, John B., Cornelius, Richard.
Walter, brother of H. T. Wadsworth, lives in Dixon, Ill.
His sister, Anna Maria, lives in Dixon, Ill.
Frederick lives in Vicksburg, Miss.
John B. was born in Buffalo Dec. 25, 1823 ; was brought up in Buffalo and Springville ; was in California and Oregon sev- eral years; was Commissary-General in the forces raised in Oregon to fight the Indians ; was sutler to the army at Wash- ington and other places, in the War of the Rebellion. He accu- mulated a good property ; he traveled extensively in foreign countries, and he came to the home of his youth to die and rest by the side of his parents. His respect for his ancestors incited him to provide for the erection of the fine and costly family monument which stands in the rural cemetery in Spring- ville.
Cornelius died in Illinois.
Richard lives in Red Oak, Iowa, and is prosperously engaged in trade.
H. T. Wadsworth and Family.
Henry T. Wadsworth was born in Canandaigua, Nov, 6, 1813. His boyhood days were spent in Buffalo; he came to Spring- ville with his parents in the Spring of 1833 ; he was then about twenty years of age ; he has lived in this town since that time. He carried on the harness business in Springville successfully for forty years.
In 1855, he purchased a farm on lots thirty-three and thirty- four, township six, range six-a mile east of Springville, on
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which he resided. He now resides at his pleasant home on East hill in Springville.
In 1843, he married Louisa Jones. They have four children : Charles R., Morris, Helen and Louisa.
Charles R. Wadsworth was born in Springville, Sept. 27, 1845. In 1862, '63, '64, he was with his uncle, John B. Wads- worth, who was engaged in the business of sutler to the army in Washington and elsewhere. He now, and for several years past, has carried on the harness business in Springville. He has also built and owns several dwelling houses in the village.
He married Edna, daughter of Edwin Wright. They have two daughters :
Mary and Lena.
Morris, son of H. T. Wadsworth, was born in Springville, July 25, 1849. He attended school at Springville Academy, and Eastman's Commercial College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. For several years, he held the position of salesman for Richmond & Co., of Springville.
In 1873, he went West, and is now doing an extensive busi- ness in company with his uncle, Richard Wadsworth, in Red Oak, Iowa.
William J. Wiley.
William J. Wiley was born in Concord April 1, 1831. His wife, Lucretia Vosburgh, was born in Kinderhook, Columbia county, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1831 ; her father came to Concord in 1856. His father's name was David Wiley; he came to Con- cord in 1813 ; lived in the town until his death, which occurred June 9, 1879 ; his mother's maiden name was Alyda Vosburgh ; she is still living, aged seventy-nine years.
William J. Wiley was married Aug. 2, 1856, to Lucretia Vos- burgh.
Mrs. Wiley's father, Matthew Vosburgh, who now lives on the old " Saxe" farm, one and one-half miles east of Spring- ville, fell and injured himself on the 15th day of March last and is seriously ill ; his eighty-third birthday occurred on the preceding day. Her mother was seventy-three years of age Jan. 13, 1882.
Family record :
William V., born Nov. 13, 1857.
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Thomas S., born Dec. 23, 1859.
Alyda J., born Nov. 20, 1862 ; died in September, 1863.
Nelson E., born Sept. 15, 1867.
Ira C. Woodward.
The Woodwards are of English origin. Benedict Wood- ward, grandfather of Ira C., was born in the eastern part of New York, Feb. 1, 1756, and died there Dec. 20, 1813. His wife, Elizabeth, was born July 15, 1763, and died Sept. 14, 1841.
Ira, father of Ira C., was born in New Lebanon, Columbia county, N. Y., March 28, 1795. He married Anna Carr in 1817 ; about 1830, he removed to Concord-Horton Hill-he lived there about ten years, and then moved into Concord Valley, where he died Aug. 23, 1863. His wife died April 26, 1 869.
They had a family of nine children :
Eliza A., born Nov. 8, 1819; married Joseph C. Whiting ; died May 29, 1870.
Ordelia, born Sept. 11, 1821 ; died Aug. 5, 1837, on the ocean on his way to California.
Benedict C., born Aug. 21, 1823 ; married Mary A. Potter ; died April 14, 1852.
Amanda M., born June 26, 1845 ; died Oct. 23, 1841.
William L., born Dec. 25. 1827; married Harriet E. Rector. Fred L., born Aug. 8, 1830; died Oct. 27, 1850.
Ambrose K., born Aug. 9, 1835 ; married Mary J. Jones.
Nelson V. B .. born Sept. 27, 1837 ; married Anna Zwipp ; died May 30, 1872.
Ira C., born May 3, 1847 ; married Viola A. Briggs.
Ira C. Woodward was born in Concord, N. Y., he remained on his father's farm until sixteen years of age, when he went to Buffalo and entered the paper warehouse of V. B. Nelson. In 1868, he entered into partnership with Charles Baker and con- ducted the paper business under the firm name of Baker & Woodward He sold out his interest and engaged as traveling agent in selling furniture, which business he has since followed.
He now represents large firms in New York, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati and Grand Rapids, and is one of the most success- ful salesmen on the road.
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In 1883, he removed to Springville, where he now resides, several years previous to which he lived at Boston, Erie county, where he was engaged in mercantile business, under the firm name of Woodward & Churchill.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodward have one daughter, Mattie I., born Aug. 12, 1871.
Joseph Yaw.
Joseph Yaw came to this town with Samuel Cochran, and took up land in what is now the village of Springville. Coch- ran took one hundred acres on the south part of lot two and Yaw took all the remainder. Soon after he married the widow of John Ures. His house stood where Miss Goddard's now stands. Here he lived about twenty years and cleared up a farm He died in 1829. The widow went to Minnesota many years after and died there.
They had four children :
Sally, married Benjamin Wheeler and died soon after.
Aurelia, went to Minnesota and died there.
Marietta, is married ; lives in Minnesota.
Joseph, enlisted in the army during the Rebellion and was killed.
Peter Zimmer.
Mr. Zimmer was born in Sardinia March 5, 1838, where he lived until 1876, when he removed to Concord, where he has since resided. He has been farmer, carpenter and the owner of saw mills in Sardinia and Concord.
He was a soldier in the Rebellion, enlisting Aug. 11, 1862, in Company C, One Hundred and Sixteenth regiment, New York State volunteers; first went into camp at Fort Chapin, near Baltimore ; from there his regiment was transferred on board the steamship Atlantic for Ship Island, but on account of sick- ness he was left off at Fortress Monroe, where he remained in the hospital two months, at the expiration of which time he sailed to join his regiment : at the mouth of the Mississippi his ship lay in quarantine sixty days ; he met his regiment at Baton Rouge in April, 1863. He participated in every action in which his regiment took part throughout the war, being
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wounded in the last one, Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. He was mustered out of the service June 8, 1865.
Mr. Zimmer was married June 14, 1866, to Miss Mary E. Brink.
One daughter living :
Hattie A., born Feb. 28, 1868.
Augusta, born in 1878 ; died in November, 1880.
Statement of Mrs. Eliza Reynolds.
My father, David Shultus, walked from Vermont to the town of ( oncord in June, ISto, located land and then walked back again ; he moved to Concord from the town of Salsbury, Addi- son county, Vt., Oct. 1, 1810. We were three weeks getting to Buffalo and one week getting to Springville. We had to cut our road as we went along, and we frequently camped out nights. We came with a team, consisting of two yoke of oxen drawing a long-reached covered wagon ; the cover was of tow cloth of mother's making; I was six years old, past ; when we come we found George Richmond living on the Cattaraugus creek, and Esquire Eaton lived in Springville : soon after Stick- ney and a blacksmith came; I think the latter's name was Plumb.
I attended school at Springville in 1812; Waitee Eaton, teacher ; I also attended school at the Liberty Pole Corners : Waitce Eaton, Eliza Butterworth and a young doctor from Ver- mont were the first teachers that I remember.
A man by the name of Stannard opened the first store, but so long ago that I cannot name the year.
I think Eaton built a saw mill about 1812.
Abial Gardner was the first miller I remember.
The houses were all of logs with stick chimneys and bark roofs, with open, Dutch fire-place. Father made a table out of part of his wagon box ; chairs were mostly benches and bed- steads were made of poles interwoven with elm bark, similar to the seat of a splint-bottomed chair. Father brought our cook- ing utensils, together with his farming utensils, from Vermont. We used to hear the wolves howl almost every night for many years after we came to Concord; they were so destructive to the sheep that the early settlers were compelled to build log
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pens, and the sheep would have to be put into these nights and the pens had to be covered with logs, and even then the wolves would come nights and try to gnaw the logs off to get at the sheep. Bears were also plenty ; upon one occasion I met one as I was coming from school on the path. There was also plenty of deer and now and then a panther would be seen.
We had no post route or post system, and the only way we communicated with our friends was to send letters by those who were going and letters would be received by us in a like manner by those who would come here.
Grapes and wild plums were of spontaneous growth along the banks of the Cattaraugus, while the woods would yield an abundance of beech and butternuts.
The streams were also full of fish, just such fish as are caught in the lake to-day. Our people made a net and we caught an abundance ; sometimes we supplied our neighbors, though they were not very numerous or near.
We lived in the wagon until father built us a house.
Chester Spencer.
Mr. Spencer was born in Hartford, Conn .; from there he came to Cortland county, N. Y., where he was married to Abi- gail Badgely, sister of the late Morgan L. Badgely ; from Cort- land county he removed to Augusta, Me., and engaged in trade ; from Augusta he came to Springville, N. Y., in 1840 or 1841, and entered into the mercantile business, which he pur- sued for many years; at different times he was in company with Morgan L. Badgely, J. N. Richmond and his son, Hor- ace C. He was a successful merchant and a highly respected citizen ; he died in Springville July 26, 1868; his wife died aged fifty-four.
They had five children, viz :
Frances, married Rev. George Dutton ; resides at Saginaw. Mich.
Horace C., married Miss Kate Morris ; he has been very suc- cessful as a merchant ; he now resides at Flint, Mich .- a person of wealth and influence.
Thomas V., is a hardware merchant at Saginaw, Mich.
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Cornelia, married Lorenzo Colt : died in Springville, aged nineteen.
Charles.
C. C. MeClure.
C. C. McClure son of John McClure, is of Scotch origin and was born March 6, 1812, in Cazenovia, Madison county, N. Y., and removed with his father's family to Griffin's Mills, Erie county, in 1825. At the age of fifteen years he began the trade of shoe-making, which, together with farming, he has followed more or less since. On the 24th day of Nov., 1831, he was united in marriage to Miss Laura Thompson and the fruits of this marriage were seven children, four of them sur- viving at the present, viz :
Olive, born Feb. 21, 1836.
George W., born Feb. 22, 1838.
C. C., Jr., born Feb. 12, 1845.
L. Alice.
In 1836 Mr. McClure settled in Springville, which has been his abiding place since. For forty-six years he has lived upon the same lot. At one time he quite extensively carried on the business of boot and shoe making, but of late he has more or less lived at his own leisure, his attention being divided between farming and his shop. He lives to enjoy the society of his friends without ostentation and the steady, even course of his life has secured to him the respect of the community where he has so long resided.
C. C. McClure, Jr.,
Son of C. C. McClure, was born in the village of Springville, Feb. 12, 1845. Soon after gaining his majority he engaged with a mercantile house in Buffalo as salesman and afterwards as traveling salesman and several years he passed upon the road. A short time since he entered into co-partnership with another young man, and they are at present engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes in the city of Buffalo.
Some time in the year 1872, he was married to Miss Lora Albro, of his native village.
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Genealogy of the Godard Family.
Edward Godard, farmer, was born about the year 1595, in Norfolk county, England, where he continued to reside; was once very wealthy but afterwards much reduced by oppression during the civil war.
Being on the Parliament side his house was beset and demol- ished by a company of cavaliers, who also plundered his sub- stance. He escaped through the midst of them in disguise, but died soon after.
EDWARD GODDARD'S WRITINGS.
Second Generation. William Goddard, seventh son of Edward a citizen and grocer of London, was born in 1625. Traded largely at wholesale, met with great losses at sea ; came to New England in 1655, and settled at Watertown, Mass.
Third Generation. Edward Goddard, twelfth son of William, was born at Watertown, Mass., March 24, 1675 ; became teacher in a Boston school. He was many years in commission for the peace ; nine years chosen and served as Representative of the town in the General Court, and also chosen and served three years in his Majesty's Council for the Province.
Fourth Generation. Edward Goddard, eldest son of Edward, 2d, was born at Watertown, May 4, 1698; was one of the first proprietors and owned five rights in the town of Shrewsbury, Mass.
Fifth Generation. Nathan Goddard, eldest son of Edward 3d,a farmer, Orange, Mass., born Jan. 18, 1725 ; was for several years a prominent officer in the Congregational Society of Orange ; died Feb. 12, 1806. aged eighty-eight years.
Sixth Generation. Nathan Goddard, son of Nathan ist, was born about 1760, and resided in Orange, Mass.
Seventh Generation. Nathan Goddard, son of Nathan 2d, was born in Orange, Mass., Aug. 31, 1786; married Ruth Briggs, of Orange. Children born in Massachusetts :
Nathan A., Emeline B., Seth W., and Lemuel.
Nathan with his family, moved from Massachusetts to Erie county, N. Y., in 1816 ; purchased and settled on what is known as the Steele farm, at East Concord. Five or six years after
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bought the Benjamin Wheeler farm at the foot of Townsend Hill, south-east slope, to which he removed, where the family lived many years. Children born after coming to New York :
Calista, Edward, Silenus A., Elmina R., Emily R. and Lem- uel. Ruth, the mother, died Nov. 19, 1846. In 1848, Nathan, the father, moved to Springville : lived with his son Edward, and died July 27, 1854.
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