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O. S. KIMBALL, farmer, is a native and resident of Osceola, born August 4th 1842. His wife was Mary L. Cameron, of the same place. He enlisted February 11th 1862; served three years with the army of the Potomac and was honorably discharged. He has been a justice
M. GLEASON, son of Paul and Mrs. J. Gleason, was born of the peace in Osceola, and was attached to the police
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force on the grounds of the Centennial Exhibition at came Mrs. C. L. Pattison. Mr. Pattison is now president Philadelphia.
BURTON E. LEWIS is a farmer in Deerfield township. He was born in Wyalusing, Bradford county, November 16th 1828.
SAMUEL W. LINCOLN, M. D., is a native of Plainfield, Mass., born July 13th 1855. His wife was Miss Verona Webb, of Nelson. Dr. Lincoln was graduated at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md., in 1879, and in the same year located at Nelson and engaged in the practice of his profession. He has already won a good reputation.
JAMES T. LOSEY was born in Nelson, in 1843, and is the son of Artemas and Emily Losey, who settled in Nel- son in 1832, where for many years Mr. L. was engaged in trade, lumbering, etc. He died in 1869 and his wife in 1865. James T. married Miss Jennie M. Merritt, of Farmington, in 1869. He is proprietor of the Nelson saw and planing mills, and manufactures lumber.
HIRAM MERRITT is a native of Delaware county, N. Y., and was born in 1808. In 1836 he located in Farming- ton, Tioga county, on 150 acres of wild land. Without money or team at first, by energy and economy he has * paid for 400 acres. In 1869 he went into the mercantile business in Nelson, which is his principal occupation at present. In 1836 he married Miss Mary Ann Foster, of Saratoga. Of their ten children three are living. She died in 1876, and in 1878 he married Miss Mary Mc- Donald, of Canada. They have one child.
WILLIAM MERRITT, son of Peter and Susan Merritt, is a native of Delaware county, N. Y., born in 1821. He
children. He came to Tioga county in 1835, and in 1848 purchased the farm of 100 acres in Nelson where he now resides.
HENRY MOUREY was born in 1827, in Montour county, Pa .; came to Tioga county in childhood; passed the bus- iness part of his life in Farmington, and settled in Nel- son in 1877, on a farm. In 1851 he married Miss Ada- line Baxter; they had six children, of whom only one survives. Mr. Mourey's father, Peter Mourey, born in Montour county, in 1791, of German parentage, married Miss Betsey Saunders. They had ten children, seven of whom are living. In 1830 Mr. Mourey took up 234 acres of land in Farmington, and he afterward acquired 900 acres. He was supervisor many years. He died in 1866; his wife in 1873. Both were members of the Lutheran church.
WELLINGTON A NEWCOMB, a native of Hamburg, Erie county, N. Y., was born in 1838, and came to Tioga county when a child. He married Miss Jerusha Keeney. They have one daughter. He was a harness maker at Wells- boro ten years. In 1878 he purchased the hotel at Nel- son, refitted and refurnished it, and he has made for it an enviable reputation as an excellent hotel.
JOSEPH OAKDEN is a native of England, born in Derby- shire, in 1803. He came to this country in 1829; lived for a time at Albany, Utica, Hammondsport, and Ad- dison, N. Y., and came to Nelson in 1869, where he owns 550 acres of land. In 1833 he married Maria Hollis, of Otsego county, N. Y. She and their son died in 1879.
CHARLES L. PATTISON has lived since 1870 in Elk- land, where he is engaged in banking, railroading and farming, and is interested in several manufactories. Prior to 1870 he was cashier for the Fall Brook Coal Com- pany at Fall Brook During the construction of the Cowanesque Valley Railroad (nearly three years) lie was secretary and treasurer of the company, the president of which was Joel Parkhurst, whose daughter, Anna S., be-
of the company which is building the Addison and North- ern Pennsylvania Railway from Addison, N. Y., to Gaines ('40 miles). He was born in Chestertown, Warren county, N. Y., February 16th 1842.
ALLEN H. PERRY, son of E. H. and Hannah T. Perry, was born June 9th 1833, at Mt. Morris, N. Y., and mar- ried Miss Sarah Herrington, of Woodhull. He has re- sided in Michigan and in New York. He has two chil- dren - Minnie S., and Earl H. He enlisted April 18th 1861, under the first call for volunteers, and re-enlisted, August 24th 1861, in Company F 11th Pa, cavalry, for three years. His farm is in Osceola.
WILLIAM PIERCE, born in Schoharie county, N. Y., in 1824, is a son of John B. and Fannie Pierce, who removed from Erwin, N. Y., to Farmington, Pa., in 1843, where they died in 1870 and 1878 respectively. William enlisted in 1864 in Company H 207th Pennsylvania volunteers, and served till the close of the war. His wife was Miss Adeline Grover, of Chatham. In 1876 he settled on a farm of 140 acres in Nelson.
JAMES W. PUTMAN has been a school director in Knoxville. He was born in Montgomery county, N. Y., October 4th 1823, and married Julia Ann Mellon, of that county.
MRS. WILLIAM M. RICHARDS was born in Lawrence- ville, Pa., March 8th 1856. Her father was Hon. J. W. Ryon, of Schuylkill county. She was married December 15th 1880 to William M. Richards, of Pottsville, who is now a prosperous farmer in Elkland.
HARRIS S. RYON, son of Judge John and Susanna married Miss Eliza A. Hazlett in 1848; they have four Ryon, was born in 1816, in Elkland. He owns a farm
of 100 acres in Nelson. In 1837 he married Miss M. H. Congdon, of Long Island, who died in 1842, leaving three children. In 1843 he married Miss Elizabeth Sherwood, of Orleans county, N. Y. She died in 1882, leaving one child.
ALLEN SEELY was born October 22nd 1826, in Osceola. His father, who was born in 1788 and died in 1866, was a pioneer in Tioga county; his mother, Lucy, daughter of Abner Kelsey, was born in 1791 and died in 1873. Allen Seely married Ann Campbell, of Nelson. They have three children-M. B., Judd D. and Ada C. Mr. S. is a farmer in Osceola.
FRANK J. SEELY, son of Morgan and Harriet Seely, was born in 1854, in Osceola. In 1875 he located in Nelson as one of the firm of Seely & Richards, general merchants. He has been town clerk and treasurer since 1879. In 1880 he married Miss Augusta Phelps, of Os- ceola.
JONAS BELLOWS SEELY was born in Southport, Chemung county, N. Y., March 17th 1810, and has lived 70 years in Osceola, in the southern part of which town- ship he has a farm. He married Hannah Van Dusen, of Farmington, and they had eight children, of whom six are living. Mr. S. was assistant assessor one year.
PHILO STEVENS, born in Greenville Center, N. Y., in 1825, married Miss Susan D. Plank in 1846. They have five children. In 1847 Mr. Stevens located in Middle- bury; in 1860 removed to Farmington, and in 1874 came to Nelson, where he resides on a farm. He has always been an active temperance worker.
WILLIAM W. STEWART was born in 1828, in Sullivan county, N. Y. He is a son of Sylvester and Mindwell Stewart, who settled at Beecher's Island in 1838, but about 1846 removed to Woodhull, N. Y. William W. married Miss Sally A. Brown, of Woodhull, in 1850, and settled in Nelson in 1866, on the farm of 140 acres where he now lives. He has held the office of assessor.
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DAVID W. STULL, a native of Elkland, born in 1835, is a son of Marinus W. Stull, formerly of Southport, N. Y., who was in the war of 1812, and whose wife still lives, aged 77 years. David W. married Mary Thomas, of Tuscarora, N. Y. He is a prosperous farmer, living at Elkland.
D. H. TAFT, born in Tuscarora, N. Y., in 1849, is a son of Daniel and Amanda Taft, who came from Tusca- rora to Nelson in 1875. He married in 1878 Josephine, daughter of William and Eliza Merritt, of Nelson. He implements; also of the firm of Taft & Albee, dealers in pianos, organs and sewing machines, both in Nelson.
PHILIP S. TAYLOR was born at Elkland, September 24th 1823, and is a son of Silas O. Taylor, who was a pioneer in Tioga county. Philip S. married Pamelia, daughter of Benjamin and Polly Tubbs, of Elkland, He is engaged in farming and lumbering in Osceola.
GEORGE TUBES was born January 12th 1829, at Elk- land. His father, Samuel Tubbs, was an early settler and a soldier of 1812. George Tubbs married Jane Campbell April 10th 1852. Their children are Frank, Annie and Minnie. He is a farmer, and has been super- visor and school director in Osceola.
EBENEZER WARREN, born in Delaware county, N. Y., in 1826, in 1841 married Gertrude A., daughter of Jacob and Sally Shaver, of the same place. They have five children. He settled in Farmington in 1854, and in 1857 purchased the farm in Nelson where he now resides. In 1864 he enlisted in Company H 207th Pa. volunteers; was wounded April 2nd 1865, and discharged from the hospital. He is a carpenter and joiner by trade.
JAMES WARREN, Nelson, son of Hiram and Mary Hart
1825. His parents removed to Charleston, Tioga county, in 1843. He married in 1846 Miss Laura Gibson, of Farmington. His second wife was Miss Polly A. Weeks; his third marriage was to Miss Cora E. Lent, of Roches- ter. His family comprised five children.
REV. CHARLES WEEKS, son of John and Polly Weeks,
ried Miss Lucretia Babcock, of Farmington, who died in 1875, having borne him eight children. In 1877 he married Miss Mary J. Black, of Forksville, Pa. In 1860 he en- tered the ministry of the M. E. church, and for 16 years pursued his calling, returning to Nelson in 1876. His father, John Weeks, born in Hancock in 1791, married Polly Baxter; they had five children. In 1838 he engag- ed in lumbering at Nelson. In 1841 he took up 140 acres in Farmington, where he died in 1858. He was in the war of 1812.
HENRY TUBES, farmer, was born January 4th 1845, in the township of Osceola, where he now resides. He is a son of James Tubbs and his wife Ann Gleason. He was educated in the common schools, and in 1862-64 LEANDER C. WOOD is ticket agent for the N. Y., L. E. and W. Railroad Company at Elkland. By profession he is a civil engineer, and he was county surveyor of Bon Homme county, Dakota territory. He was born October 4th 1855, and married Kittie Clark, of Dansville, N. Y. attended the Osceola high school, of which Prof. A. R. Wightman was principal. He owns the flat farm on the south side of the Cowanesque River opposite the village of Osceola, and the " Windfall." He is engaged largely in stock farming, and has done much to improve the W. W. WRIGHT, M. D., is a native of Cairo, Greene county, N. Y., and was born March 31st 1830. His par- ents, Asahel and Temperance Wright, formerly from breed of horses in the surrounding country. In April 1877 he purchased "Valiant," an imported Percheron Norman stallion, weighing 1, 700 pounds, and has since that | Connecticut, had eight children. Dr. W. married Alice time kept him upon his farm. In January 1880 Mr. Tubbs Hammond. He has been a practicing physician in Elk- was married to Myra, oldest daughter of Charles Bulkley. | land 35 years.
DELMAR TOWNSHIP AND WELLSBORO.
MARY EMILY JACKSON.
years 1830 and 1840-under her literary and maiden name, was Miss Mary Emily Jackson, who became the wife of Mr. Isaac Cleaver, formerly a resident of Phila- delphia, but engaged at the time of his marriage in some building enterprises in conjunction with the newly com- pleted Corning and Blossburg Railroad.
Miss Jackson was born in Wellsboro, in 1821, and re- ceived her education chiefly at the Wellsboro Academy. ington, this county. Their children are -- Isaac, born in 1843; Samuel .now in Nebraska), born in 1845; and
She early evinced a talent for poetry, and frequently con- tributed her compositions to the Wellsboro Phonix, and Mary, Mrs. H. F. Long, now of Troy, Pa., born in subsequently to the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, 1848: and the literary New Yorker, obtaining for them a pop- ular appreciation and esteem that induced Horace Greeley, the principal editor and one of the three pro- prietors of the latter journal, to extend to Miss Jackson an invitation to reside in his household, and become a regular contributor to the columns of his paper; this, however, she declined.
Her poetry is marked by much harmony of expression, versatility of thought, and delicacy of sentiment, com- bined with a calm, gentle and appreciative love of nature; and imbued with that spirit of sadness instinctive in and
characteristic of the true poet. She was possessed of more than ordinary personal charm and beauty, which,
The younger of the two ladies mentioned on page 198, joined to her amiable disposition and adorned by her and whose fame as a charming poetess was well es- , literary talent, made her society esteemed, and won for tablished-more particularly at the period between the her many admiring friends. She was of medium height,
with hair and eyes dark, complexion pale and delicate. and manner of exceeding grace. In 1842 she was mar- ried, at Covington, to Isaac Cleaver. She then dis- continued her contributions to the press, and published no collection of her poems. She died at the residence of her son Isaac, at Troy, Bradford county, in 1869, and is buried beside her husband, previously deceased, at Cov-
Mrs. Cleaver was so popularly known in this county for her literary merit forty years ago, and so distinctively identified with its history in the memory of the older in- habitants, that to omit from the pages of a work of this kind a proper tribute to her memory and virtues would be an inexcusable error. The writer therefore feels grat- tified that in this brief notice he has done what con- veniently lay in his power to prevent such an error; and that the publishers of the work have desired it as giving an increased credit to the volume.
HENRY H. GOODRICH.
is one of the firm of Baxter & Taft, dealers in agricultural Warren, of Herkimer county, N. Y., was born there, in
March 10th 1846. Their children are Mark and Annie, was born in Hancock, N. Y., in 1824. In 1848 he mar-
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ROBERT R. AUSTIN was born in Broome county, N. and recorder of the county, having been elected in 1875, Y., September 14th 1833. His parents were natives of 1878 and 1881. He was nominated in 1878 without op- New England, and first came to Tioga county to locate gosition, He is a native of Deerfield township, and was in 1854. Neither is now living. Mr. Austin is a farmer. born November 11th 1838. He married Anna P. Steb- bins, of Dayton, Ohio.
DANIEL BACON, M. D., Wellsboro, was born in Del- mar, May 21st 1836, and married S. Florence Greene, of the same township. He served during the civil war as lieutenant, and as acting assistant surgeon of his regiment two and a half years.
OLIVER BACON, son of Daniel and Lydia Bacon, was born at Candor, Tioga county, N. Y., in 1801. He mar- ried Miss Catharine Houghton, daughter of Simeon and Rachael Houghton, natives of Massachusetts, who came here from Otsego county, N. Y., in 1818. Mr. Bacon's farm of 290 acres was "taken up" in 1820 by his father, who came from Tioga county, N. Y., in 1815.
SIMEON BACON, son of Oliver and Catharine Bacon, is a native of Delmar township, in which lies his farm of 300 acres. He was born in 1830, and married Miss Frances Skelton, daughter of George and Elizabeth Skel- ton. He enlisted in 1864 in Company K 207th Pennsyl- vania volunteers, and served till June 1865.
JOHN W. BAILEY was born November 27th 1824, in Charleston township, and now lives at Wellsboro, en- gaged in farming. Mrs. Bailey was Margaret Lewis, of Charleston.
VINE H. BALDWIN is a native of Bradford county, Pa., and was born in 1815. He owns a farm of 364 acres in Delmar. He married Miss Cynthia D. Boyden, of the same township. His father, Vine Baldwin, was born in 1784 (the second white child born near Athens, Bradford county , and married Sarah Burt, of Chemung county, N. Y. They had eight children, of whom five are now living. They located in this county in 1834, Mr. Bacon buying "Big Marsh." A few years later he removed to Chemung county, N. Y., where he died in 1872.
MARY ELIZABETH BALDWIN, daughter of Moses S. Baldwin, was born in Lawrenceville. She was graduated in medicine at the Bellevue Medical College, in New York city, in 1874, and located in Wellsboro three years later.
EDMUND BARKER, carpenter and joiner, Wellsboro, was born in 1825, at Landisfield, Mass. His first wife, Rhoda A. Lathrop, of Parkersburg, W. Va., died in 1865, and he married Miss Lizzie Walker, of Fredonia, N. Y. He came to Wellsboro in 1874.
D. H. BELCHER was born in Elkland, in 1845, and married Miss M. A. Spencer, of Wellsboro. He began business in Wellsboro in 1873, making tin, copper and sheet iron ware, and now averages an annual business of from $15,000 to $20,000 in hardware and agricultural implements. He served through the civil war, enlisting in the 45th Pa .; was a prisoner during the last year at Richmond and at Salisbury, N. C .; was made sergeant in 1865.
N. J. BENNETT, jeweler, Wellsboro, was born at Bain- bridge, Chenango county, N. Y., and married Miss Fan- nie Hogle, of Niagara Falls, Ontario.
MATTHEW BLATNER, of the firm of Blatner & Gisen, cabinet makers and dealers in furniture, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1823, and came from that country to Wallsboro in 1852. In 1857 he married Henrietta Mc- Garff, of Wellsboro.
ISAAC A. BORDEN is a manufacturer of sash, blinds, doors, etc., at Wellsboro. He was born in Tompkins, Delaware county, N. Y., in 1850. His first wife was Olive A. Gibson, of Wellsboro, and his second Ellen L. Smith, of Mainsburg.
GEORGE C. BOWEN is serving his third term as register
ADDISON BOYDEN was born in 1805, in Royalton, Vt. The family lived in Montreal from 1811 to 1833. Mr. Boyden then married and removed to Chenango county, N. Y., and in 1837 came to Marsh Creek, Tioga county. In 1842 he bought his present farm of rio acres. His wife died in 1823, aged 60. Nine of their children are living.
NATHAN C. BRADLEY, son of Nathan and Mary Brad- ley, was born in Colchester, Delaware county, N. Y., in 1843, and married Miss Helen Rowe, of Greene county, N. Y. He served the last three years of the civil war in Company B 157th N. Y. He came to this county in 1879 from Wisconsin and bought his farm of 61 acres near Stokesdale. He is a carpenter and joiner by trade.
ALEXANDER S. BREWSTER was born in 1813, near Montrose, Pa., and married Miss Mary Smith, of Alle- gheny county, N. Y. He removed to Tioga village in 1828 and opened a store. In 1831 he removed to Wellsboro. He was a clerk in the Legislature from 1846 to 1857 excepting one year. He was district attorney 1835-38, and has been a magistrate over 20 years, always elected without opposition.
ALMON BROOKS came in 1843 from Oswego county, N. Y., and in 1845 bought his present farm in Delmar. He was born in 1823, in Castleton, Vt., and married Miss Helena Miller, of Delmar.
JOHN BROWN, tanner and currier, Wellsboro, was born in 1846. He enlisted November 14th 1861, and served in the Union armies until his discharge in 1864.
MERRITT B. BROWN, farmer, Stokesdale, was born in 1843, in Cayuga county, N. Y. The next year his parents, Miletus and Caroline Brown, removed to Chatham township, this county, where they now live. In 1872 M. B. Brown married Miss Sarah Paddock, of New Jersey.
EDWARD A. BRYDEN, born in 185r, is a surveyor by profession, and a member of the firm of Bryden & Crowl, successors to E. B. Young, dealer in books, sta- tionery, etc., at Wellsboro.
O. BULLARD came to Wellsboro in 1853, and engaged in the dry goods trade in 1855. He is now in the grocery business and continues to be one of the leading business men of the borough. He was born in 1835, in New Ber- lin, N. Y., and married Miss Helen M. Lewis, of Wells- boro.
FRANCIS M. BUTLER, son of Calvin and Elizabeth Butler, was born in 1839, in Delmar township, where his farm is located. He married Miss Mary Kearn, of London, Ont. He enlisted in 1862 in Company A 149th Pennsylvania; was discharged for disability, but re-en- listed and served during Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania.
JOHN M. BUTLER was born in Delmar township, January 15th 1830. He is a descendant of the Butlers who came to Tioga county in the early days of its set- tlement. He married Amanda Dewey, of Delmar town- ship, in 1852. They have three children. Mr. Butler's father is one of the oldest residents of the county.
EDWIN CAMPBELL, son of Robert and Jane Campbell, was born in 1840, in Delmar township, where his 50-acre farm is situated. Mrs. Campbell was Miss Anna Cool- idge, of Delmar. Mr. Campbell enlisted in 1864 in the 207th Pennsylvania and served through the war; was wounded at Petersburg April 2nd 1865.
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FRANK CONEVERY, editor and publisher of the Wells- boro Gasette, was born in Hammondsport, N. Y., July 16th 1855. He married Helen Bullard, of Wellsboro.
AMOS COOLIDGE was born in Canada, in 1811. He came to Tioga county in I818, two years after his father (Amos) located at Wellsboro. Mr. Coolidge married Mary Kilbourn, who was born near Wellsboro, and has nine children living. He is a farmer and one of the oldest inhabitants of the locality in which he resides.
FRANK A. CROWL, of Bryden & Crowl, booksellers and stationers, Wellsboro, was born there, in 1856. In 1882 he married Miss Nellie Preston, of Boston, Mass.
HIRAM W. DARTT has been in business as a carriage maker at Wellsboro since 1846. He is a native of Charleston township; was born in 1825, and married Miss A. Potter, of Middlebury.
CHARLES W. DAVENPORT is the head of the firm Davenport & Cole, house, sign and carriage painters, Wellsboro. He was born in Jefferson township, Morris county, N. J., in 1849. In 1873 he married Miss Mary Jackson, of Gaines, Tioga county.
JESSE B. DENMARK was born in 1826, in Chemung county, N. Y. In 1844 he married Miss Emeline Mills- paugh, of that county, and they had eight children. She died in 1877, and in 1879 he married Miss Catherine Rowe, of Wellsboro. He removed to Union township in 1856, a short time after to Bradford county, in 1859 to Ward, and in 1879 to Wellsboro from Blossburg. He enlisted in 1862 and served through the civil war. He was a magistrate at Blossburg in 1876-79. He is a car- penter, contractor and builder.
WILLIAM H. DICKSON owns a farm of 163 acres in Delmar. He was born in Ripley, Chautauqua county, N. Y., in 1827, and in 1863 married Miss Sarah A. Lom- bard, of the same place. He served in the army in 1857 - 62, including one year of the civil war. He came here from Chautauqua county in 1872.
JOHN DOUMAUX established his drug business in Wells- boro in 1880. He was born in 1843, in Charleston town- ship, and married Miss Mary I. Root, of Wellsboro.
JOHN DULEY, superintendent of the Stokesdale tan- nery, was born in Woodhull, Steuben county, N. Y., in 1846. His wife was formerly Alice Ives, of Delmar. Mr. Duley located in Osceola in 1865 and at Stokesdale in 1874. He served the last year of the civil war in a New York regiment, and was wounded at Hatcher's Run. He owns 265 acres of land in Farmington.
MARTIAL A. DURIF is a native of France. He was born in 1833; came to America in 1859, and in 1868 started his tannery at Wellsboro, which turns out $5,000 or $6,000 worth of leather annually. He married Miss F. Wagner, of Wellsboro.
A. B. EASTMAN was born in Danby, Tompkins county, N. Y., April 13th 1843. In early life he was a farmer, and in 1863 a soldier in the Army of the Potomac. In March 1865 he opened his dental office in Wellsboro, and he claims to have been the first dentist in the county to bring into general use nitrous oxide gas and narcotic spray for painless operations in dentistry. He married Miss Frances Irene Wood, of Millbury, Mass.
CHARLES EBERENZ was born in this township, in 1824, and was married in 1849 to Miss Sarah Brubaker, of Harrisburg, Pa. His father, William Eberenz, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1801, and came to America in 1817. On the voyage he became acquainted with the family of Dr. Samuel Hoover. The two men were given 50 acres of land apiece by Fisher and Worden, owners of extensive tracts in Tioga county, and Mr. Eberenz in- creased his estate to 400 acres. In 1818 he married Mary
A., daughter of Dr. Hoover. Of their six children three are living, viz .: Charles, above mentioned; Mrs. Caroline Smith, of York county, Pa .; and Mrs. Mary Matson, of Delmar. William Eberenz died in Delmar in June 1880, aged 79; his wife in 1865, aged 70. Charles Eberenz owns a farm of 350 acres.
SAMUEL E. ENSWORTH was born in Vermont, in 1808, and married Eunice Rockwell, of Cortland county, N. Y. In childhood he removed with his mother to Che- nango county, N. Y., afterward living in Cortland county. In 1849 he came to Wellsboro and engaged in trade and lumbering. The latter business he followed extensively in North Carolina from 1870 till his retire- ment.
ERASTUS FELLOWS was born in Canaan, Litchfield county, Conn., in 1800, and married Betsey Johnson. He went in 1815 to Luzerne county, Pa., and engaged in distilling. In 1821 he located a farm on the Stony Fork road, which afterward became the home of his father's family. In 1827 he bought 160 acres at Wellsboro, and opened the Fellows House, which was principally kept by him until his retirement from business in 1870.
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