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GEORGE L. FELLOWS, son of Asahel and Alvina Fel- lows, was born in 1839, in Delmar township, where he owns a farm of 86 acres. He was married in 1863 to Miss Rhoda Hoag, of Delmar.
DANIEL FIELD is a native of Delmar township, and was born in 1828. He was married to Louisa F. Webb, of Chenango county, N. Y. He is a farmer and has held several township offices.
EDWARD A. FISH, Wellsboro, was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1821, and in 1846 was married to Sarah A. Cudworth, of Sullivan township, Tioga county. They have two children. Mr. F. was a magistrate in Sullivan 1858-68; in 1869 was elected sheriff and removed to Wellsboro. Since the close of his three years' term he has been practicing veterinary surgery.
JOHN GISIN, furniture dealer, Wellsboro, was born in Switzerland, November 18th 1840, and in 1868 married Louisa A. Margraff, of Wellsboro. He came to America and this county in 1866; lived in Nelson nine years; Paterson, N. J., six years; and then formed his present business connection.
JARVIS GRIFFIN was born in Otsego county, N. Y., January 24th 1820, and his brother Ambrose was born in 1822. Both reside in Delmar township. Their parents were natives of New York State, and came to Tioga county in 1840. Jarvis Griffin married Priscilla Gray, of Tioga county. He is a farmer; was formerly employed as a carpenter and joiner.
CHARLES P. GRINNELL, who was born in Bainbridge, Chenango county, in 1824, came on foot to this county when 15 years old. He got work among the lumbermen on Pine Creek, and has since been lumbering and farm- ing, now owning 153 acres near Lower Stokesdale. His first wife, Mary Grossjean, of Delmar, died in 1851 (the year of their marriage), and Mr. Grinnell married Char- lotte Grossjean, by whom he has five children.
JACOB HALL was born in Norfolk, England, in 1803, and came to America in 1831. In 1851 he removed from Bradford county to Wellsboro, being employed by the heirs of the Bingham estate. He was 22 years a gate- keeper on the Wellsboro and Tioga plank road. In 1860 he bought his present farm.
JOSEPH H. HARMAN, of Harman, Borden & Co., manu- facturers of lumber, sash, blinds, doors, etc., Wellsboro, was born in Liberty township, this county, in 1829, and married Miss Lucy Gaylord, of Covington.
IRA D. HOTCHKISS was born in Harpersfield, Delaware
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county, N. Y., October 16th 1825. He lived six years at Bath, N. Y., where he and his wife acted as superinten- dent and matron of the Davenport Home for Orphan Girls. He is now a farmer in Delmar. He was married in 1854 to Sarah F. Buckley, daughter of George Buck- ley, of Deerfield. His present wife was Lucy M., daugh- ter of Richard Moore, of Delmar. They were married in 1864.
SYLVESTER HOUGHTON, carriage maker, Wellsboro, was born in Delmar, in 1840, and married Miss A. Green of that township. He served in Company I 45th Pennsylvania volunteers from August 1861 to January 1863.
GEORGE JENNINGS was born in Charleston township, in 1837, and married Margaret Broughton, of Delmar; he is a farmer. He was a member of Company H 6th Pennsylvania reserves, and was wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg.
FRANK A. JOHNSON is a member of the firm Johnson & Van Dusen, whose marble and granite works at Wells- boro were established by Mr. Johnson and John R. Bacheldor in 1871. In 1876 Mr. Bacheldor sold to Mr. Van Dusen. Seven men are employed, turning out $5,000 or $6,000 worth of work annually. Mr. Johnson was born in Catlin, Chemung county, N. Y., in 1845, and married Miss Adelia A. Lyon, of Chatham.
DAVID KARR, son of Robert and Margaret Karr, was born in Delmar, September 16th 1839, and married Miss Agnes B. Locke, of Wellsboro, where he now lives, em- ployed as a carpenter and joiner and contractor and builder.
RALPH E. KARR established his drug business at Wellsboro in 1880, and employs three men in the manu- facture of Roy's medicines. He was born in Delmar in 1854.
BENJAMIN F. KELSEY lives in Wellsboro, where he was born in 1829. His wife was Azubah Ogden, of Wellsboro. Mr. Kelsey is a farmer, owning 180 acres. He served from September ist 1864 till June 7th 1865 in Company K 207th Pennsylvania.
ROBERT M. KETCHAM, liveryman and farmer, Wells- boro, was born in Troupsburgh, Steuben county, N. Y., October 23d 1843, and married Delphine A. Hess, of Elmira.
LASELL KIMBALL was born in Charleston, Montgom- ery county, N. Y., December 10th 1811. His parents located near Wellsboro in 1839. Mr. Kimball was mar- ried to Lenora Chaffee, of Onondaga county, N. Y. He is a farmer.
HENRY S. KIMBLE was born in Fairfield, Lycoming county, in 1820, and learned the blacksmiths' trade, which he now follows at Wellsboro. He enlisted in 1861 in Company H 6th regiment Pennsylvania reserve, and was discharged June 15th 1864.
ROBERT G. LLOYD was born in 1825, in Lycoming county. He came here and bought his farm of 100 acres in 1866. His wife was Miss Lydia Frederick, of Liberty, this county.
PHILANDER LONG, merchant at Wellsboro, has held the office of postmaster. He was born April 7th 1832, in Burlington, Pa., and married Dorliske Pultz, also of Burlington.
R. L. MACK was born March 30th 1841. He married Miss Josephine A. Illick, of Richmond Pa. His car- riage making business at Wellsboro dates from 1874, em- ploys ten men, and turns out from $8,000 to $10,000 worth of goods annually.
EDWIN MATSON is a native of Coventry, Chenango county, N. Y., and was born in 1815. In 1838 he mar- ried Miss Mary Ebernz, of Delmar, in which township he has one of the finest farms. He came to Tioga county in 1832 and engaged in lumbering with Stowell & Dickerson, who in time raised his salary from Sio to $200 per month. Lumbering has been his principal business.
FREDERICK MCGARFF was born in Germany, in ISII. He married Miss Fredrika Miller, of Saxony. He came to America and located at Wellsboro in 1854, and en- gaged in the manufacture of brick on Nichols street, near the cemetery. In 1881 be removed his works to the present location. He employs from 10 to 12 men, turn- ing out about 500,000 bricks annually. His son William enlisted in Company H 6th Pennsylvania volunteers in 1861, and was killed at the battle of Antietam, Septem- ber 18th 1862. Lewis MeGarff, another son, enlisted in 1861 in Company E (Kane's Rifles) " Bucktail " regi- ment, and served three years, during which he was once made a prisoner.
B. F. MILLIKEN is one of the merchants of Wellsboro. He was born at Libertyville, Sussex county, N. J., June 15th 1852, and married Lucy R. Navle, of Wellsboro.
GEORGE W. NAVLE, harness maker, Wellsboro, was born in Watson, Lycoming county, in 1831. Miss Caro- line Sanders, of Wellsboro, became his wife. Mr. N. came to Wellsboro December 31st 1849, and soon began his present business, which amounts to from $6,000 to $8,000 annually.
JOHN PEARSON was born in Burlington county, N. J., in 1814. His first wife was Maria Bates, of that county. They were married in 1838, and she died in 1854. In 1859 Mr. P. married Rebecca C. Archer, of Philadelphia. From 1837 to 1853 he lived in Philadelphia; then bought and removed to a farm of about goo acres, of which his present farm comprises over 200. He is raising tobacco largely.
ALMERON H. PERRY was born in 1846, at Pratt's Hol- low, Madison county, N. Y., and married Mary 1. John- son of Wellsboro. He carries on a wool-carding, cloth- dressing and fancy dyeing establishment at Wellsboro. He was a member of Company G 53d Pennsylvania vol- unteers from February 23d 1864 to July ist 1865.
WILLIAM ROBERTS, a native of Bradford county, Pa., came to Wellsboro in 1854 and engaged in the manufac- ture of tin and sheet iron ware, and in 1864 went into the hardware business. He employs four or five men, doing a business of about 825,000 annually.
CHESTER ROBINSON, head of the banking firm of C. & J. L. Robinson, is a son of Jesse and Abia Robinson, and was born in 1807, near Cooperstown, Otsego county, N. Y. He was first married in 1830, to Miss I .. Bowen, of his native county, by whom he had two children, one of whom is living. She died in 1843, at Wellsboro. In 1878 Mr. Robinson married Miss Mary E. Barber, of Column- bia, Lancaster county. They have one child, a daughter. Mr. Robinson's son George was a graduate of Yale C. 1- lege and entered the ministry. After a period of labor in Brooklyn and Cincinnati his health failed, and he made an extended European tour for its improvement, but, re- turning to his native village, he died in 1863. Mr. Rob-
P. G. LYON was born in Addison, Steuben county, N. Y., January 7th 1831. His first wife, formerly Mary A. Brown, died in 1866; and August 21st 1871 he was mar- ried to Miss Henrietta Bartle, of Stony Fork. He came to Wellsboro from Addison in 1868; is a blacksmith, and inson has lived in Wellsboro since leaving Otsego county employs several men.
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JAMES M. ROE owns a farm of 86 acres in Delmar. He came to this county in 1842, with his parents, Cor- nelius and Betsey Roe, from Kortright, Delaware county, N. Y., where he was born August 18th 1822. The fam- ily settled at Tioga village, and later in Middlebury, where the father died in 1860. From Middlebury J. M. Roe came to Delmar. He married Miss Harriet P. Hutchinson, of Delphos, Chenango county, N. Y., in 1847.
FRANK H. ROSE, dentist, Wellsboro, is a native of Roseville.
FRANK S. ROWLAND, son of Rev. Henry and Harriet Rowland, was born in Groton, Tompkins county, N. Y., in 1859. He is employed as a teacher in Wellsboro. His father was born in Onondaga county, N. Y., in 1832, and came to Westfield, this county, in 1846. He married Miss Harriet O. Knapp, of Genoa, Cayuga county, N. Y., and had four children. He was ordained at the age of 30, but retired from the ministry after several years in con- sequence of failing health. He was elected county treas- urer in 1872, and served two years. He died at his res- idence near Wellsboro in 1882.
W. O. RUSSELL was born in Broome county, N. Y., in 1847, and came to Tioga county with his parents in 1859, and his father, I .. L. Russell, then located about three miles south of Wellsboro. W. O. Russell married Maria E. Heise, of Delmar township. He is engaged in the lumbering business. The mill operated by Russell & Avery, two miles west of Wellsboro, was built in 1878, by Bradley & Pardon. It is run by steam power and pro- duces an average of about one and a quarter million feet annually.
CHARLES SANDBACH is a printer by trade, but is now proprietor of the Sandbach House, Wellsboro. He was born in Prussia, in 1842, and came in 1850 to New York city. There he married Mary Wiesner in 1864, and that year began hotel keeping at Germania, Potter county, Pa. He came to Wellsboro in May 1881 and bought the Baldwin (formerly the O'Conor) House. He gave it his own name, and thoroughly refitted and refurnished it, making it a first-class hotel.
JOHN B. SMITH located in Delmar in 1855, where he owns a 50-acre farm. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1823; came to Baltimore in 1842, and engaged in butchering. In 1848 he went into the lumbering busi- ness on Pine Creek, Tioga county, with Phelps & Dodge. He married Margaret Statts, of Baltimore.
ALANSON SPENCER was born in 1826, in Sullivan town- ship, and in 1853 married Miss Samantha Hiltbold, of Delmar. He is a farmer and a miller.
HENRY STICKLY, son of Henry and Lydia Stickly, is a native of Wellsboro, and was born in 1850. In 1872 he married Miss Eleanor B. Kelsey, of Wellsboro. His farm at that place contains 38 acres. He is a member of the fire department.
WILLIAM B. STOWELL, son of Warren and Hannah Stow- ell, was born in Nineveh, Broome county, N.Y., April 18th 1830. His wife was formerly Miss Catherine L. Dales, of Delmar. He owns a farm of rio acres in this township.
OTIS STULL was born in Delmar township, Tioga county, Pa., March 12th 1857. He was married to Stella Bostwick, a native of Tompkins county, N. Y., and is a farmer. His parents are natives of Tioga county also.
ANDREW G. STURROCK is a carpenter and joiner and contractor and builder at Wellsboro. Sturrock & Karr employ three or four men, and do a business of from $5.000 to $ro,000 annually. Mr. Sturrock has been borough councilman six years. He was born in 1835, in Delmar, and married Miss Charlotte @. Austin, of Wells- boro.
ABIATHAR SWOPE was born in Herkimer county, N. Y., in 1829, and when six years old came to Tioga county with his parents, who lived about ten years on Pine Creek and have since resided in Wellsboro. Mr. Swope was married in 1853 to Miss Aseneth Spencer, of Delmar. He is a carpenter and joiner and a surveyor.
CHARLES TOLES is living in Wellsboro, retired from business. He was born in Schoharie county, N. Y., in 1815; learned the carpenter's trade, and lived at Pratts- ville, Greene county, N. Y., till 1839. He then located in Deerfield, Tioga county, where he bought 150 acres. He was in trade at Wellsboro several years, and located his family there in 1871.
THOMAS VEAZIE, keeper of the Parkhurst House, Wellsboro, since 1875, began his career as a hotel keeper at Dresden, Yates county, N. Y., in 1847. He has since been connected with the Benham House, Penn Yan; the Veazie House, Geneva; and the Spencer House, Charlotte -all in New York. He was born in Rome, N.Y., in 1823.
CHARLES F. VEIL was born February 11th 1813, in Schorndorf, Wurtemburg, Germany, and came to the United States in 1834. In 1836 he married Christina M. Schambacher, of Liberty township. He has lived in Liberty 39 years and in Wellsboro 7 years. He was a tanner before coming to Wellsboro. He was justice of the peace in Liberty 15 years, county auditor 12 years, associate judge 5 years, commissioners' clerk 3 years, and nearly 3 years county treasurer by appointment (up to January ist 1881).
SAMUEL B. WARRINER learned the jeweler's and car- penter's trades, but is now farming, with his residence at Wellsboro. He was born in Delmar. in 1818, and mar- ried Miss Nancy A. Warriner, of that township. His father, William, came from Massachusetts to Stony Fork, Delmar, in 1817, and lived there till he died, in 1867, aged 80. He served in the war of 1812.
O. S. WEBSTER, printer, Wellsboro, was born July 20th 1845, in New Marlborough, Mass., and married Lucinda English, of Wellsboro.
IRA WETHERBEE has a farm of 80 acres in Delmar, in which township he was born in 1818. His wife was Amanda Stratton, formerly of New York. His parents, Edmund and Abigail (Wright) W., of New Hampshire, had ten children, of whom eight are living. They came to Delmar in 1815, where Mr. W. died in 1839 and Mrs. WV. in 1870.
JULIUS C. WHEELER, dealer in produce, coal, flour, feed, etc., in Wellsboro, was elected burgess in 1879 and 1880, holding the office two years. He was born in 1832, in Greene, Chenango county, N. Y., and married Miss Emily E. Bartle, of Delmar.
O. E. WILLIAMS is engaged in farming and lumbering, and owns the Mitchell coal mines in Morris township. He was born in Groton, Tompkins county, N. Y., in 1845, and came to Wellsboro in 1859. He served in an engin- eer corps the last year of the civil war. He married Miss Cornelia Campbell, of Delmar. He employs six men in mining about 1,300 tons of coal annually.
ALFRED WIVEL is a native of London, England, and was born in 1835. In 1855 he married Miss Esther Walker, of Birmingham, England. He came to New York in 1854 and to Wellsboro in 1859. He is a painter by trade.
FREDERICK LOUIS YAHN, formerly a farmer, now a butcher at Wellsboro, came in 1855 with his parents from Prussia, where he was born in 1843. The family located in Charleston in 1855 and in Delmar in 1857. Mr. Y. in 1864 married Miss Minnie Margarff, a native of Prussia, who came to Wellsboro in 1863.
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DUNCAN TOWNSHIP.
URI BUCKLEY was born in November 1856, in Nelson township, of which his wife, Minnie L. Allen, is also a native. Mr. Buckley is the telegraph operator at Antrim.
CHARLES E. BURGESS was born in Troy, Bradford county, Pa., July 15th 1854, and engaged in the service of the Fall Brook Coal Company in 1873. He is assist - ant superintendent; is a member of the 1. O. O. F., and of the Patrons of Temperance.
FRANK BURGESS was born in Bradford county, Pa., JAMES GAFFNEY was born in Danville, Pa., in 1857, May 26th 1861, and married Martha L. Prothero June and married Martha A. Shepard, of Pittston, Pa. He is 25th 1881. He is weigher for the Fall Brook Coal Com- employed in connection with the mines at Antrim. pany at Antrim.
DAVID W. JENKINS, born March 22nd 1840, in Wales, EMERY G. DRAKE, M. D., was born in Granville, Pa., came to the United States with his parents in 1841. He August 26th 1852, and married Ida C. Decker, of Mans- was married in 1859, at Bloomsburg, to Hannah Davis. field, Pa. He graduated at the State normal school, He enlisted in April 1861 for three months; re- enlisted Mansfield, where he was subsequently employed as clerk for three years in Company H 96th Pennsylvania; took in the drug and book store of Hon. C. V. Elliott, M. D., part in the peninsula campaign, and fought in Maryland; during which time he pursued the study of medicine. was wounded three times. After the war he went to He entered Bellevue Medical College, New York, in 1873, Ohio, where he held several offices in the town of Hub- and the Long Island College Hospital in 1874; received bard. In 1873 he settled in Tioga county. He has the degree of Doctor of Medicine the same year; engaged served one term as auditor and one term as school in the practice of his profession at Blossburg in 1874, director in Fall Brook borough. but removed to Fall Brook as resident physician. He JAMES KETCHUM was born in Westchester county, N.Y., October 2nd 1817, and married Catherine Odell, of Hyde Park, Dutchess county. He has always been engaged in the lumber business, and has been a successful operator. was chairman of the Tioga County Medical Society in 1878, and one of two delegates to the meeting of the American Medical Association at Philadelphia in 1876. He removed to Antrim in 1878, accepting the position of resident physician at that place.
PATRICK LYNCH is a native of Towanda, and was born in March 1836. He has charge of an engine, and is a machinist by trade. He married Anna Gilligan.
HENRY J. MITCHELL, hotel keeper at Sand Run, was born in Morris Run, May 4th 1855. He married Addie Bartle, of Stony Fork, Pa.
ANDREW J. POLLOCK was born in Scotland, in 1849; came to America with his parents in 1853, and located at Blossburg. He was employed by the Fall Brook Coal Company as clerk at Fall Brook, where he married Mary A. Allen. He was transferred to Antrim in 1876.
GEORGE SNEDDON, a native of Scotland, was born April 22nd 1844. He has been a miner all his life. He In 1846 he married Jeanette Lared, of Coatbridge, Scotland, and emigrated to this country in 1866. He immediately lo- cated at Fall Brook, but removed to Antrim in 1872.
PROFESSOR JOHN F. SULLIVAN was born in Rochester,
ent wife was Miss Mary Reese; they were married in 1865. N. Y., October 23d 1845, and married Annie S. Lynch,
of Towanda, Pa. He is principal of the Antrim schools.
WILLIAM E. WEBSTER, assistant foreman at Antrim, was born in New Hampshire, November 25th 1835, and in 1856 married Maria Wilkins of Jersey Shore, Pa. He has been school director and judge of election.
FARMINGTON TOWNSHIP.
SAMUEL P. BABCOCK, father of Buel Babcock, was born in 1805, in Chenango county, N. Y., and married Miss M. Tallman, of that county. Two of their three children are living. Mrs. Babcock died in 1835, and in 1836 he married Miss Betsey Caneff, of Chenango county, by whom he had eleven children, of whom five are living. He came from Southport, Chemung county, to Farming- ton in or about 1838; took up 122 acres of wild land, and lived thereon until 1873, when he went to Nelson and lived retired until his death, in 1879. His wife died in 1877.
BUEL BABCOCK, son of S. P., was born in the year 1844, on the farm of 122 acres where he now resides, in Farmington township. He married Miss Mary D. Elliott, of Greene, Chenango county, N. Y. He served the first year of the civil war in the 44th N. Y., and the last year in a New York engineer corps, and was often under fire while constructing bridges, earthworks, etc.
WILLIAM BABCOCK was born in Chemung county, N. Y., in 1838, and married Mary A. Whitfield, from Glou- cestershire, England. He is a farmer. He enlisted in
THOMAS FARRER, one of the early settlers of Antrim, was born in Westmoreland county, England, in 1814, and when about 24 years old emigrated to this country and settled on the Cowanesque River, five miles from Lawrenceville. In 1837 he walked to Blossburg, with but three half dollars in his pocket, and there engaged in mining. After remaining there twenty-five years he ac- cepted a responsible position in Fall Brook under the Fall Brook Coal Company. After ten years' close atten- tion to business he was promoted to a more lucrative po- sition in Antrim, as superintendent of the entire work. Mr. Farrer is one of the early settlers of the township of Duncan, and is liked by all in his employ. was married to Miss Margaret Bowen, of Blossburg. In 1856 she died, and in 1859 he married Miss R. Horton, who lived only six years after their marriage. His pres-
ANDREW K. FLETCHER, who has kept the Antrim Hotel since 1876, was born in Smithfield, Bradford county, in 1846. He served in the 50th N. Y. regiment (engineers in 1864-5. His wife was Miss Margaret Maher, of Blossburg.
Mr. Fletcher's father's family
came to this county (Ward township) in 1850. In 1872 he came to Antrim as clerk in the company's store.
WILLIAM W. FORREST was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 23d 1852. He removed to Fall Brook in 1869, and engaged in the service of the Fall Brook Coal Com- pany as clerk; was promoted chief clerk of the com- pany's store at Antrim in 1873. He was elected clerk of Duncan township in 1879.
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1864 in Company 1. 22nd N. Y. cavalry and served to the close of the Rebellion.
LEWIS A. BEAVER, son of Isaac L. and Sarah Beaver, was born in 1828, in Berks county, Pa. In 1849 he came from Dauphin county to Nelson, and was engaged in tanning there until 1862. He then bought a 60-acre farm in Farmington, and he now owns 140 acres. He served in Company H 207th Pennsylvania during the last year of the Rebellion. In 1851 he married Miss Eliza Lugg, of Farmington.
JAMES BEEBE, son of Anson and Lucy Beebe, is one of the prosperous farmers of Farmington, owning 250 acres which he bought in 1852. He was born in 1826, in Lawrenceville, and in 1850 married Miss Margaret Stokes, of Farmington; they have two children. He was elected a magistrate in 1863 and 1868.
OLIVER H. BLANCHARD, son of Charles and Lovina Blanchard, was born in Lawrence township, in 1822. In 1850 he took up 220 acres of wild land, of which he has 100 now under cultivation, with good buildings. He was the first Republican treasurer of Tioga county (1857, 1858). He married Miss Emily J., daughter of H. B. and Myra Blanchard, and has four children.
HEZEKIAH G. BOWDISH came to Tioga county in 1844 and located where he has since lived, and is engaged in farming. He was born in the town of Clarence, Erie county, N. Y., in 1818. In 1846 he married Miss C. Hey- sham, of Canisteo, N. Y., by whom he had two children. She died in 1855, and in 1856 Mr. B. married Priscilla Field, of Avoca, N. Y.
WILBUR BROWN located on his present farm in 1871. He was born in 1830, in Tioga township, and in 1850 married Miss Lucy Sharp, of Campbelltown, N. Y. He served in the 207th Pennsylvania, and was wounded at Petersburg. His father, Joseph Brown, came from Con- necticut before 1830 to Tioga and married Miss Eva Ward, of Painted Post, N. Y., by whom he had five children, of whom three are living. He died in 1847.
REV. DANIEL S. BUCKBEE was born in 1800, in New York city, and died in 1864, in Farmington, where about 35 years ago he bought 200 acres of wild land. For 21 years he was engaged in the ministry of the Methodist . Episcopal church. He married Miss Catharine Wood, of Sugar Hill, N. Y., in 1823, and they had twelve children.
GEORGI M. BURTCH came to this county in 1848, and located first at Crooked Creek, but for 25 years has lived in Farmington, where he has a farm of 65 acres. He was born in 1819, in Vermont. His first wife (Mary E. Frost, of Schroon, Essex county, N. Y.), to whom he was married in 1841, died in 1849, and in 1851 he married Miss Alvina Roberts, of Farmington. They have seven children.
JOHNSON BUTTS was born in Canterbury, Windham county, Conn., in 1790, and is supposed to have located in Tioga county about 1811, with his brother Loren. For many years he kept a high school in his own house at Lawrenceville. In 1835 he married Miss Lucy Beebe, of that place. Their children are O. L. Butts and Mrs. P. P. Close, of Farmington. Mr. Butts came to this township in 1841 and lived the rest of his life on the farm now owned by his son at Farmington Hill. He was largely interested in building the Presbyterian church, and one of the chief supporters of that society.
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