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Perrysburg, and thence to the town of Westfield, where he lived several years. In 1855, he removed to Walworth Co., Wis. He had nine children : Franklin, Lois, Francis, Harri- son, Mary, Sarah, George, Jane, Eva. Lois married Levi Hall, of Portland. The others went to Wisconsin, where the three sons died within two years, and his wife soon after. He married a third wife, and lived but a short time. Mary lives with a second husband.
HORACE was born Jan. 3, 1808, married Mchitable John- son, and removed to Erie Co., Pa., where he resided many years, and where his wife died. Since his second marriage, he resided several years in the town of Westfield. Two of the sons of the former wife, Wesley and Clark, served in the late war, the elder of whom, Wesley, died in the army of sickness, leaving a wife and child. Besides these two sons, he had four or five daughters by his first wife. By the second he had sev- eral daughters and a son. Ile removed with his family, in 1867, to Kentucky; his son, Clark, married, having preceded him one or two years.
ELIZUR was born Nov. 19, 1809. He went to Ripley in 1837, where he married Frances Averill, by whom he had eleven children : Caroline, Walter, d. inf., Ellen, Ann, Jack- son Averill, Henry Douglas, Clarence Vernon, Lydia, Jo- sephine, Blanch and Bell, twins. His wife died Sept. 21, 1862. He resides in Ripley.
GIDEON was born April 27, 1812. He commenced the shoe and leather manufacture in Gowanda, and continued it many years, and engaged in mercantile business, which he contin- ued a number of years, having in this time lost his store and goods by fire. After continuing business a short time longer, he settled on his farm near the village, where he now resides. He married in Gowanda, Maria Spencer, daughter of Judge Spencer, and had by her two children: Marcus B., who was killed on a railroad near Chicago; and Spencer, d. inf. Mrs. Webster died, and Mr. Webster married Abigail Grannis, by whom he had four children: 1. Peyton R. 2. Elizur S., who died Feb. 1, 1863, aged 14 years. 3. Nellie M. 4. Belle E.
WILLIAM HI. HARRISON Was born Dec. 11, 1813, and mar- ried Mary Dickson, of Ripley. They had four daughters: 1. Clarissa, who married Wm. A. Coombs, now a merchant in Coldwater, Mich. 2. Adalaide. 3. Aristeen. 4. Anna, who died at the age of 11 years. The family removed to Coldwater from Ripley, in 1867.
HARRIET JENNETT was born Oct. 22, 1815, and married John Smallwood, formerly of this town. [See Family of Wm. Smallwood.]
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WILLIAM WEBSTER was born May 4, 1787; and in 1803, at the age of 16, he came to this town with his brother, Eliznr, and lived in his family several years, and settled on the farm where he now resides. He has had a longer resi- dence in this town than any other person, except, perhaps, Amos Keeney, who came in with him, but did not bring in his family until the next year. Mr. Webster also was absent a year. He married Lydia Day, who died childless. He married Charlotte Phelps, daughter of Isaac Phelps, April 30, 1812, who was born April 28, 1788. Both of them have from an early date been members of the Presbyterian church. They had eleven children:
LYDIA D., who married Joseph Pike. They had five chil- dren: A daughter, d. inf., Mary A., Walter Webster, Julia Armina, and William W. Mrs. Pike died Aug. 25, 1855, aged 42. Mr. Pike married Elsie Van Liew, by whom he has no children.
CHARLOTTE P., who married Jeremiah Ensign. He carried on for many years the blacksmithing and wagon-making bnsi- ness in South Warsaw, and removed to Hudson, Wis. He now resides a few miles distant, on his farm. His children are: William S., Elizabeth. Ellen, Delight, Frederic D., Clay- ton, Charles, Eliza Jane, Myrta.
SUSAN married Titus L. Hitchcock. They reside in Coving- ton.
WILLIAM married Calista Keeney. Their children are: Jay, Martha, Flora, Eugene Day. They reside in Gainesville.
EMILY N. married Peter R. Warren. Their children are: Melissa, Celestia, Frank Johnson.
JULIA married James G. Hovey, removed to Indiana, and died March 8, 1850.
ROLLIN R. married Laura Baker. They had six children: Erline, Alice, Ada, Elmer, Charles, d. inf., and Merton.
HENRY W. died at 5. DELIGHT d. inf.
PHELPS MILLS married Jane Seeley, and has three children, Milton, Julia, Effie.
HENRY D. married Angeline Avery. Their children are, Wilson and Henry Romaine.
WILLIAM WHITING, SEN., was born in Hartford, Conn.' in 1748 or '49, and married Abigail Flower, of the same place. They removed, with several children, to Granville, N. Y .: thence to Hampton, and from there to Warsaw about the year 1820. Mr. Whiting was a soldier of the Revolution, a good citizen, and a member of the Baptist church. His wife died Aug. 25, 1832, aged 73 years. After her death he was
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married three times. His second wife was Mrs. Lucinda Whiting, a brother's widow, who died Sept. 10, 1838, aged 67; his third, Mrs. Phebe Rich, widow of Peter Rich; his fourth, the widow of Lyman Noble, who also is dead. Ile died March 22, 1849, aged 90 years. He had eight children, all by his first wife, viz .:
Lucy married Chauncey Sheldon. [See his Sketch.]
CATHARINE married Silas C. Fargo. [See his Sketch.]
WILLIAM was born Sept. 17, 1788, and married Elsie Scrib- ner, in Hampton, in 1812. He removed to Warsaw about the year 1823 or 1824. IIe removed a few years after to Napoleon, Michigan, where his wife died in 1863. They had nine children : William, Price, Lizana, Bethana, Ruana, Chauncey, Alexander, Philander, Christalana. Mr. Whiting returned from Michigan, about two years since, and settled in Castile.
ABIGAIL married David M. Truair, in Granville, and removed to Oswego, and thence to Warsaw, where they died. Their children were, Carrie P., Cordelia D., died at 21, Ame- rica N., who served in the war, [See War History;] David II., died at 40; Cortez F., died at 34; and Ara W .; and four who died in infancy.
NATHAN married Rhoda Towle, near Syracuse, and removed to Warsaw, thence back to Onondaga or Oswego county. They had eight children : Malkin, Loren, Almerin, Ellen, Lucy, Nathan, Abigail, Mary.
At the time of the insurrection in Canada, called the "Patriot War," in 1837, Mr. Whiting, with many other citi- zens of the United States, joined the patriots in Canada; was taken prisoner near Prescott, taken to London, tried and con- victed, and banished to Van Dieman's land. After a resi- dence there of seven years, he escaped in an American vessel and returned. He was brother-in-law to Chauncey Sheldon, who shared a similar fate. [See Chauncey Sheldon.]
SOPHRONA married Eliphalet Petty, in Hampton. They have resided in Warsaw and Buffalo.
DEMMON married Amanda Warren. Their children were, Abby, who married Mr. Morse, and resides at Batavia; Irene A., Silas, Mary J., Frank D. Mr. Whiting died Jan. 19, 1857; Irene A. and Mary J., in February, and Frank D. in November-all in the same year. Only Mrs. Whiting and Abby are living.
TIMOTHY married Polly Walker, of Warsaw. They re- moved many years since to Michigan. Their children were Russel, died at 39; Adna, d. inf .; Samnel, died at 20; Tru- man, Dwight, Viola, Salem, died at 24; Zeno, Isabel, Arthusa
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and George. Mr. Whiting died, Nov. 2, 1865, at Brady, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., aged 64 years.
JULIUS WHITLOCK was born in Warren, Litchfield Co., Conn., Feb. 20, 1785. At the age of 14, he removed with his father to Granville, N. Y .; thence, in the spring of 1810, to Warsaw. He served in the war of 1812, in a company of Cavalry, under Capt. (afterwards Judge,) Isaac Wilson, of Middlebury. He married Thankful Lewis, Sept. 19, 1816, who was born, Jan. 12, 1795. They lived during the remain- der of their lives on the farm on which they first settled, about two miles north of the village. He was a member the Pres- byterian church; she was an Episcopalian. They had three children : Emily L., Harry W., and Mary.
EMILY L. was born July 14, 1817; married Ammon Wilson, and died Feb. 11, 1843.
HARRY W. was born Nov. 29,1818, and is unmarried. IIe resides on the homestead of his father.
MARY was born Ang. 29, 1836, and married George W. ITamlin, Oct. 16, 1866.
SAMUEL WHITLOCK was born in Warren, Conn., Sept. 2, 1787. He removed to Granville, at the age of 12, and thence, with his brother Julius to Warsaw, in April, 1810. He married, Feb. 10, 1813, Polly Blowers, of Bethany. They still reside where they first settled, two miles north of the village. He united with the Presbyterian church in 1817, and was for many years a ruling elder. He had seven chil- dren :
POLLY, born Feb. 18, 1813, died in infancy.
MARIA, born March 8, 1816, married Oliver C. Chapman. Their children are, Polly, Chloe, Emily, Caroline, Laura, Frank, Benjamin, and Willie.
ANN ELIZA, born Dec. 28, 1818, died Nov. 11, 1853.
TRUMBULL, born July 3, 1821, d. inf.
SAMUEL NORRIS was born Feb. 28, 1824. He married Emily L. Benedict, of Perry. He is a Grocery and Crockery mer- chant in Warsaw, and a member of the Methodist church. They have had three children : Samuel Benedict, Charles E. who died at six, and George N.
LYDIA, born July 14, 1827, died at the age of 29.
LOMAN, born Oct. 30, 1829, married Lucinda Otis. He is a farmer, and resides on the East Hill.
Odvin C. Williams.
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JOHN WILDER was born in New Hampshire, Feb. 11, 1787. He married Sally Andrews, Jan. 4, 1808. In 1806, before his marriage, he came to Attica, and, being a mill- wright, worked for several years at building mills in Attica and the adjacent towns and counties. From 1807, he had an interest with his brother Joseph, in the grist-mills in Attica until 1818, when they sold out to Parmenio Adams and John Peabody. In 1822, he removed from Batavia to this village, having become part proprietor of the grist-mill, in which he had an interest until within a few years previous to his death. He was several times elected to the office of Supervisor, and other town offices, and twice to the office of Sheriff of Gene- see county, before the formation of Wyoming. He died July 5, 1849, by the running away of his horse with a carriage. He had seven children:
ARETAS A., who married Juliet D. Strong, and after several years removed to Detroit, where he now resides. He had three children: Edwin A., Sarah M., and Eleanor D. All are married, and reside in Detroit.
Lucy married Joshua Q. Leonard. They resided many years in this county, and removed to Michigan, where she died, Sept. 22, 1864. They had a son, James W., who is living.
ELIZA A. married Robert Paddock, of Middlebury, where she died, June 11, 1837, aged 24. She left a daughter, Eliza A., who lives in Nebraska.
B. RIPLEY died in Warsaw, May 12, 1837, aged 22.
JonN married Elizabeth Robinson, and lives in Detroit, Michigan. He has a son, John Ripley.
HELEN married Samuel S. Blanchard, who was born at Saratoga Springs, Aug. 13, 1816. He was for many years before and at the time of his death, publisher of the Western New Yorker, in this village. He died Sept. 5, 1850 Mrs. Blanchard married for her second husband, H. P. Stevens, who has since resided in Rochester and Cleveland, and now resides at Elmira.
SARAH died June 23, 1831, aged 7 years.
REV. EDWIN E. WILLIAMS was born in Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y., April 8, 1817. He graduated at Hamilton Col- lege. He was for several years a teacher in Springville Academy, Erie Co., and for a time at Mineral Point, Wis. He was licensed as a preacher by the Mineral Point Presby- terian and Congregational Convention in 1848, and ordained at Clinton by the Oneida Association in 1851. He was pas- tor of the Presbyterian church at Waterville, Oneida Co.,
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from 1850 to 1857, when he was called to the pastorate of the Congregational church in this village, to which he con- tinnes to minister with acceptance and success. He married at Springville, April 4, 1841, Ennice L. Ingalls, who was born Oct. 6. 1823. They have five children, as follows: Florence N., a teacher of music at Ilonghton, Mich. Charles A., who resides in Buffalo; Mary S., at present a teacher of freedmen in Wilmington, S. C .; Clinton, and Alice Lane.
JOHN WINDSOR was born Feb. 2, 1804. He married Lucetta Green, and removed from Pike to this town in Oct., 1830, and established the Tin and Sheet Iron and Hardware business, which he continued until 1842. In 1844, he re- moved to his farm on West Hill, where he died, June 18, 1846. He was also one of the firm of Gardner, Utter & Co., in the Woolen manufacture. [See Woolen Factories.] Mr. Windsor and his wife, soon after they came to this town, united with the Baptist church, of which he was a member at the time of his death. They had six children:
J. RUSSEL, who died in his seventh year.
A. JUDSON, who married Mary Lary, and had two children. He died of wounds received in the battle of Pea Ridge.
WILLIAM GREEN married Sarah Jane Thorp, of Warsaw. JOHN, NORTON, and SAMUEL are unmarried.
ARDEN WOODRUFF came to Warsaw in 1818, at the age of 24. For several years he worked summers at shoe- making, and taught school winters in this town and in other places. In the spring of 1823 he was married, and soon after settled at Wethersfield Springs, and commenced the Tanning business, which, with the exception of a few short intervals, he continued umtil 1830. In 1832, he bought the farm of Aaron C. Lyon, on the West IIill, and settled on it in 1833. In 1838, he sold one-half of his interest in his farm to his brother-in law, Newbury Bronson, and they carried on the dairy business until April, 1840, when he sold his remaining interest to his partner, and purchased a farm near Strykers- ville, on which he lived until 1865, when his age and physical condition indicated the necessity of retirement from active employment. He sold his farm, and in 1867 selected a home in West Bloomfield. He was a zealons friend of education and the various social reforms. He held at different times and places the several town offices of School Inspector, Super- visor, and Justice of the Peace; and in 1846 and 1847 he was a Member of Assembly from the county of Wyoming. He has been for nearly forty years a member of Congrega-
Arden Woodruff.
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tional churches in Connecticut and this state, and for several years a member of the Presbyterian church in Warsaw, in which he was an elder and clerk of the session. And for more than forty years he has been teacher or superintendent of Sabbath-schools and Bible classes. He was born in Far- mington, Conn., March 17, 1794. He married Sophia Tillot- son, in Avon, Conn., April 17, 1823. They had four chil- dren, as follows :
COLUMBUS and EMMA LUCRETIA both died infants.
CLINTON D. was born June 25, 1832, and married Miss Tillotson. He is a druggist and practicing physician in Kil- bourn City, Wis. He has had three children: Lillie Belle, Arden Bertrand, and Clinton Fredie, d. inf.
EDWARD PAYSON, who was born Feb. 26, 1840.
HENRY WOODWARD was born in Guilford, Conn., Dec. 16, 1787. He married Anna Savage, in Granville, N. Y .; removed to Warsaw in 1815, and settled on West ITill, a mile and a half west of the village. IIe sold out a few years after, and purchased a farm a mile south of the village. For several years after he came to this town, he carried on, in addition to farming, the manufacture of earth- enware. A few years before his death, he sold his farm and removed to the village. He died Dec. 3, 1864; Mrs. Wood- ward, April 23, 1867. They united, first, with the Presby- terian church. On the formation of the Congregational church, they changed their relation, and became members of the latter. They had three children: Maria, William H., and Charlotte.
MARIA, born in 1815, died at the age of 34.
WILLIAM H. married Mary Ann Gregg, of Warsaw. In Jan., 1852, he started for California, and died at sea, of chol- era, after leaving the Isthmus, aged 33. He had two children, Luther and Myron.
CHARLOTTE married Leonard Martin, of this town. [See Family of Lydia Martin.]
SAMUEL WOODWARD, brother of Henry, married Charlotte Savage, a sister of his brother's wife; and in 1832, they removed to this town from Granville. They be- long to the Congregational church. They had five chil- dren: William F., Mary Ann, Lucy, Nathan S., and Samuel Mills.
WILLIAM F. married Charlotte Gibbs, of Livonia; lived in this town many years, and now resides in Boston, Mass. His children are: 1. Edward Payson, married, has a son and a
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daughter. 2. Mary A., who married Edwin Hill, of Geneva. 3. Miranda Gibbs. 4. Mills. 5. Charlotte.
MARY ANN died in Warsaw, Dec. 2, 1841, aged 27 years. Lucy married Samuel Fisher, 2d. [See Fisher Family.] NATHAN S., formerly a printer and newspaper publisher, now a farmer, resides in the east part of the town. He mar- ried Caroline C., a daughter of the late Dr. C. L. Sheldon. They had two children: Melville, who died at 18, and Caro- line. Mrs. Woodward died Sept. 30, 1842, aged 24 years.
SAMUEL MILLS died in Ohio.
AMZI WRIGHT was born in Lenox, Mass., Oct. 24, 1781. He removed in Feb., 1803, to Batavia. Later in the same year, he settled at the place since known as Wright's Corners, where he married Huldah Kellogg. Mr. Wright resided in Middlebury to an advanced period of life, and was exten- sively known. He has ever maintained the character of an upright man and a good citizen; and for many years both himself and wife were members of the Presbyterian church in Wyoming. Since their removal from Middlebury, Mrs. Wright died in Attica.
Mr. Wright, at the age of 87, resides in the village of At- tica, and retains his faculties of body and mind in a degree unusual at that age. They had ten children:
Exos K. married Louisa Newell, and resides in Middlebury. They have three children: 1. Sarah E., who married Dr. D. K. Town, of Batavia, Ill. 2. Frances A., who married Eben Sharp, of Indianapolis. 3. Mary.
HARRY married Mary Ann Pierson, of Bethany; had four children: William, Louisa, married; Frank, Frederick, who died at 18 or 19; and Mary.
ALVINA married Nelson Wolcott, who was the first Clerk of Wyoming county. He was afterwards, for several years, a merchant in Attica, whence he removed to Batavia, Ill., where he now resides. Their children are: 1. Ellen H., who mar- ried Rollin Baker, of Attica. 2. Robert N., who married Agnes Swain, and resides in Illinois. 3. Henry K., who mar- ried Helen Newton, in Batavia, III. 4. Laurens. 5. Mary L. D. 6. Seymour A. 7. Willie W. S. Frank.
SOPHIA married Ephraim Brainerd, of Attica. Their chil- dren are, 1. Henry A., who married Libbie Phenix; 2. Jose- phine E., who married Edward D. Tolles; 3. Alice J., who married R. G. White; 4. Alvina E.
ALLEN married Charlotte Newell, and lives on the old farm of his father at Wright's Corners. They have three children, Jesse N., Huldah, and Henry.
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FRANCIS R. married Charlotte T. Putney. They had six children: 1. Ellen, d. inf .; 2. Emma; 3. Martha W., married; 4. Ella; 5. Amelia, d. inf .; 6. Jennie.
EMILY married Mr. Hanvey, of Middlebury. Children : Violetta E., married; Esther married Charles Melvin, of Bennington; Adelaide, died at 17; Daphne A .; Thomas, and Henry. Mr. Hanvey died, and she married B. S. Brownell, and has a son, Laurens.
VIOLETTA died at the age of 6 years.
SEYMOUR K. married Sarah Ellis, and resides in Missouri.
JONATHAN YOUNG was born in Dutchess county, July 15, 1767, where he was married to Nancy Beck, who was born in the northern part of Ireland, and came in early childhood to this country. In 1790 or 1791, they removed to Schoharie county; and thence, in 1816, to Warsaw, and set- tled on West Hill, near Orangeville, where he lived until the death of his wife, who died Sept. 29, 1848. He died May 14, 1855, aged nearly SS years. They were both members of the Presbyterian church, as were all their children, of whom there were six:
DAVID was born Nov. 9, 1786; married Lucy Snyder, and removed to Warsaw in 1816. His wife died Ang. 10, 1846, aged 51 years. He married in 1848, Miranda Roberts. He sold his farm on West Hill, and removed to the village, where he died Feb. 1, 1865, aged 78 years.
ILANNAII married Andrew Guffin, in Schoharie Co. They had twelve children, all of whom attained to full age, except one, who died in infancy. Seven are living. Both parents have died.
PETER was born Sept. 24, 1797. He was married in War- saw, to Lydia Adelia Stevens, by whom he had seven chil- dren: 1. Harriet, who died Ang. 14, 1859, aged 34 years. 2. Henry S., who married Letitia Willard, lives in the village, and has a son, Frank W .; 3. Martha; 4. Mary Elizabeth; 5. Abraham, d. inf .; 6. William B., who went to the war. [See War History.] He married Miss Matthews, and resides in Rochester; 7. James C. The family resides on West Hill, near the village. Both parents, who were members of the Presbyterian church, now, with several of their children, be- long to the Congregational church. Mr. Young held for many years the office of ruling elder in the former, and that of deacon in the latter. He made a public profession of his faith in 1817, and has maintained the character of a consist- ent, zealous, and active Christian. All religious and benevo- lent enterprises have received his cordial and unfaltering support.
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ELIZABETHI, born Sept. 2, 1799, was married in 1830, to William D. Barnett, formerly from Londonderry, N. H., and removed to Clarkson; thence, in 1837, to Gainesville, and in 1848 or 1849, to Attica, where he died Aug. 2, 1865, and where she still resides. He was a ruling elder in the church in Attica, and faithfully discharged the duties of that office. He died of a lingering disease, August 2, 1865. [See Bar- nett Families.]
ANDREW W., and ABRAHAM T. [See Sketches.]
ANDREW W. YOUNG was born in Carlisle, Schoharie Co., N. Y., March 2, 1802. His ancestry on the paternal side is traceable to Holland. His mother was a native of Ireland, though reared from early childhood in this country, and was one of those people who are often distinguished as the "Prot- estant" or "Scotch Irish." His vernacular language was that which had been introduced in this country by the Van Winkles, the Diedricks, and the Knickerbackers, and their fellow immigrants; though, from its having been for two cen- turies in contact with other languages, it had suffered material adulteration. His educational course comprised a few years' instruction in common schools, and at the age of nineteen, a half term in Middlebury Academy. His youth was spent in farm labor and teaching. He closed his first term of teach- ing at the end of his thirteenth year. Without any know- ledge on his part, consent had been given by his father, and, it is believed, without any specific agreement as to wages. The people of the district acknowledged themselves satisfied with their teacher, for whose three months' services and board, his father received the sum of $15! The teacher himself felt amply compensated by the pleasure of partici- pating, as usual, with his former school-fellows in their plays, and the pride of having so early attained to the honors of the schoolmaster's degree, the highest object of his youthful am- bition. He ended his labors as teacher at the age of twenty- one. After this, he was engaged for several years as clerk and as principal in the mercantile business. In May, 1830, he commenced the publication of the Warsaw Sentinel, which he continued nearly two years, when he purchased the Repub- lican Advocate, at Batavia, in which the Sentinel was merged, Jan. 1, 1832. He continued the publication and editorship of the Advocate until April, 1835, when he sold his interest in it to D. D. Waite, its present proprietor. In the course of his editorial labors in Batavia, he became deeply impressed with the importance of a more general diffusion of a knowledge of the principles of government,
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which he deemed essential to the national prosperity and the security of our liberties. Since that time his labors have been directed to this object. In October, 1835, was issued from his press in Warsaw the first edition of his "Science of Gov- erment." The book was literally an article of "home manufacture." It was written, printed, and bound in War- saw. The type setting was done chiefly by Seth Lewis, since a partner in the publication of a paper in Perry, and for more than twenty-five years proprietor and publisher of the Mar- shall Statesman, in Marshall, Mich. Among those who for short periods assisted in this work, was the Hon. William II. Kelsey, now of Geneseo, a representative in the present and former Congresses. Assistance at press work was rendered by Levi Spencer, without any previous experience in the business, who since became a devoted minister of the Gospel, and died in Illinois. The "Science of Government " was the first work of the kind brought into general notice in this state and several other states. Though coarse in its appearance, it met with a favorable reception. Its defects, more apparent, perhaps, to the author than to others, induced him to re-write and thoroughly revise it. It appeared in an improved form early in 1840. This work was followed, in 1843, by " First Lessons in Civil Government," adapted to the capacities of younger learners, and designed especially for use in the state of New York. In 1845, he wrote a similar work, adapted for use in the state of Ohio, of which many thousand copies were sold. About this time his labors in his chosen pursuit were temporarily suspended. By successive elections he was chosen to represent the county of Wyoming in the Legisla- tures of 1845 and 1846, and in the Constitutional Convention of 1846. The happiest reflection associated with this brief public service is, that these offices were spontaneously be- stowed. In 1852, he commenced the " American Statesman, a Political History of the United States," which appeared in the spring of 1855. This is believed to be the only work of its kind, being a purely political history, or history of govern- ment in this country, during the whole period of our colonial existence, of the government under the Confederation, and of the government under the Constitution. In 1858, appeared his "Citizen's Manual," containing a compendinm or digest of constitutional, common and statutory, and international law, designed more especially for adults; and in 1860, his " National Economy." His latest works for schools are the " Government Class Book," first issned in 1859; and in 1867, "First Book on Civil Government," being a simplified abridgment of the former work, and intended for younger
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