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ELISHA LEROY ANDRUS was son of Elisha Andrus and Sarah Wallace. His earlier American ancestors were John12. Stephen", Elisha45 6. His mother was daughter of William Wallace and Eleanor Drake. He was born at Manchester, Connecticut, May 31, 1813; married. August 27. 1843, Clarissa ( 1823-1899), daughter of Sprowell Dean and Clarissa Scott; came in 1845 to Troy, where he died March 6, 1854. Their sons were Francis Leroy, Arthur Denison, Aaron Sprowell.
JAMES ARAM, son of Matthias Aram and Elizabeth Tompkins, was born at or near Utica, New York. August 9. 1813 ; came west in 1838 and to Delavan village in 1840, where he went into retail business. A few years later he became one of a firm of warehousemen and lumber dealers, composed of George Passage, himself. Leonard E. Downic, and Col. Jacob T. Foster. He was successively a stockholder in the Walworth County Bank, a director of the First National Bank of Delavan, and vice-president of the banking house of E. Latimer & Company. He was a member of the county board for thirteen terms, 1862 to 1875: and a trustee of the State School for the Deaf 1872-5. He served a few years as president of the village. January 6, 1836, he mar- ried Susan C., daughter of James Rood and Elizabeth Miller. She was born at Scipio, New York, August 16. 1814, died at Delivan December 14, 1906. Their three children had died, and at Mrs. Aram's death the bulk of their estate was applied, as they had wished, to the building and equipment of a free library at Delavan.
HARRISON ARMSTRONG was son of John Armstrong and Elizabeth Lytle, who came early to Geneva with him and their other children. He was born
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in St. Lawrence county, in 1814: married Mary Scripter ; came in the later forties or early fifties to Spring Prairie as a blacksmith, and presently as a plow-maker, and for some years had a good local business. Later he lived at or near Elkhorn, and went about 1856 to Trempealeau county. At some time he made the overland way to California and came back with material for occasional home lectures. He was a ready rhymer, in various measures ; but his preference was for the versification as well as the philosophy and satire of Pope. His wife, Mary Scripter, who died several years before him, was a spiritualistic medium, and, as he said, a very superior woman. "Uncle Hat, the Plowmaker," was eccentric only in religio-philosophical beliefs or notions, loving or tolerating everything and everybody except creeds and clergymen ; but was a better Christian than he knew, being one of the best and kindest of men. His brother James never married. His sister Maria was wife of Velorous Scripter ( Mary's brother), and Sophia was wife of Richard B. Flack.
SAMUEL ARMSTRONG, a brother of John, married Mary Gregg. At least ten of their eleven children came from St. Lawrence county to Geneva and Elkhorn. The order of their birth is not known with exactness. JAMES, a carpenter, married, first, his cousin Elizabeth Armstrong: second, Jane Cruickshank ( whose brother Alexander was a building contractor of Elkhorn and of Chicago ). JANE was wife of Thomas B. Gray. AGNES, wife of David Wells ( not known here). ELIZABETH (twin with AAgnes), wife of Elihu Gray. MARIA, wife of Martin Russell. HANNAH, second wife of John Dunlap. JULIA ANN, wife of Daniel Carr Gray. SAMUEL married Hannah Van Allen. JOHN A. married Elizabeth ( daughter of Isaac ) Gray. MARTHA, wife of James Adams Flack. LYDIA, wife of Henry J. Smith. [ See Flack, Gray. and Lytle families. ] John Armstrong, a soklier of the Revolution, father of John and Samuel, had a daughter, wife of Nathaniel Carswell, whose son. Nathaniel H. Carswell lived in Racine county, and thence came to Elkhorn in 1853.
ALANSON BROWN ARNOLD was born in Cayuga county, New York, De- cember. 1812; married at Medina, New York, January 1. 1835. Dorothy Althina, daughter of Joseph Davis ; came in 1865 to a farm in Linn : died Aug- ust 3, 1885. Mrs. Arnold was born in 1815; died December 28, 1896. Their children were Joseph Davis, Henry Alanson, Francis Lamartine, Robert Bruce. Clifton Sumner.
FAYETTE P. ARNOLD, one of four sons of Luther and wife, Mary Prouty. was born near Hubbardton, Vermont, in 1826: attended an academy at Poultneyville : studied law ; came to Sharon in 1850: was admitted to practice
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in 1851; was member of the county board nine terms; chosen assemblyman, without opposition, for the session of 1862; died January 9, 1872. His wife, Jane Willis, was born in 1830. A son, Cassius F., was town treasurer in 1877-8.
SALMON G. ARNOLD (July 15, 1820-March 10, 1896), of Sharon, was son of Luther Arnold and Mary Pronty. He married in 1848 Ann Eliza, daughter of Chester Hotchkiss and Elizabeth Gillette. She was born May 11, 1826; died March 3, 1901.
VARNUM ARNOLD was son of Joseph and Susannah Arnold, who were natives of Rhode Island. It is not unlikely that both parents were of old and often honored families of the colony, for it is about evenly probable that the wife was born Varnum. Their son was born January 18, 1819, in Cayuga county, New York. After a short career as a teacher he married, at Auburn, January 22, 1845, Julia A., daughter of Dennison and Lucy Butts, and in the next year moved to section 32 of Richmond, where he bought a large farm. He served his town as one of its supervisors and also as assessor. He died September 20, 1901.
ANDREW W. ARWOOD, son of John and Christina Arvedson, was born at near Holden, Norway, August 25, 1841, and came with his parents to the town of Whitewater in 1846; enlisted August 21, 1861, in the Twenty-eighth Infantry and thirteen days later married Prudence, daughter of Samuel Loomer and Deborah Strong. Ile served three years as corporal, and came home to be one of the best of citizens. His farm at the Heart Prairie church was well managed and improved and the church well attended. He died at Whitewater (city) in January, 1909. Mrs. Arwood was born in Nova Scotia, September 7, 1836; died July 10, 1809.
HENRY H. AUSTIN, born July 28, 1832, at Mexico, Oswego county, New York; came to East Troy village in 1854 and went into retail business as clerk, in 1857 as partner, and later as wool and produce buyer. Ile married Helen M., daughter of Samuel and Dorothy Ann Fowler, September 11, 1860, and died at East Troy. March 18, 1906. His son Charles H., is now of Chicago; daughter Lucy FF. is wife of Prof. Leonard Sewall Smith, of the State University and grandson of an early settler of East Troy; Mary Belle is wife of Rev. H. H. Jacobs.
MAURICE LLOYD AYERS was son of Jehiel Ayers and Clarissa Niles. His carlier American ancestors were John' ( son of Thomas Eyer, of Wiltshire ), Obadiah2. Thomas3, Levi4, Edward5. Mr. Ayers was born in Delaware county, New York, December 4. 1819. Ile married. in 1845, Luthera Cook Vikin, daughter of Edward Aikin and Lucinda Stone, and came in the same year to a ,
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farm near Honey Creek, where he died June 11, 1884. Mrs. Ayers was born in 1823 and died May II, 1896. Their children were Althea Amelia ( Mrs. S. Dwight Slade), Frank Jehiel, Edward Aikin, William Henry, Clara. Mr. Ayers was as much business man as farmer, and as he was strong and forceful he became one of the solid men of his town. He was a Democrat of an un- ' changing type, usually attended conventions of his party, and was often its willing candidate for certain defeat.
ALENDER O. BABCOCK was born at Homer, Cortland county, New York, in 1817: studied law ; came to Whitewater in 1842 and formed a law partner- ship with Warner Earle and Frederick Cady Patterson, but passed in the next year to East Troy ; served for several years as justice of the peace; served five terms on the county board of supervisors; was elected over Adam E. Ray as member of the Assembly for 1850; was elected as district attorney in 1862 over James D. Merrill. He married, April 12, 1855, Rosanna F., daughter of Stephen Field and Mary Jordan. He died July 3, 1874. He was a good lawyer and a useful citizen. He left no children, nor known relatives of his name. Mrs. Babcock was born May 20, 1825 ; died July 5, 1906.
STEPHEN SLY BABCOCK, son of Stephen and Elizabeth, was born at Jeru- salem, Albany county, New York, June 16, 1824. In 1827 the family moved to Wayne county. About 1846. with his brothers, Caleb Sly and Willard Blanchard, he came to Darien, and all became men of character and substance. (Caleb S. Babcock died at Delavan, August 9. 1885, aged fifty-three. He married Sarah Emeline Brundige. Willard B. Babcock. born 1822, married Louise Burnett, died at Delavan, September 13. 1882.) In 1859 Stephen be- gan business at Delavan as grocer and nurseryman. He had some years of more active experience as advance agent of a circus and menagerie-traveling in the Southern states and Cuba. He served as justice of the peace for Delavan in 1877-8. and at election of 1878 was chosen sheriff over Benjamin Bassler, with another election in 1882 over John P. Cutler. He was once a member of the county board, and several times president of the village. He died at Florence. Alabama, November 4, 1894. His wife, Eliza Jane. daugh- ter of Nehemiah Barlow and Orinda Steele, was born at Rochester in 1829: married December 14. 1849; died at Vincennes, Indiana, July 10, 1900. MIr. Babcock was tall and strongly built, and in the line of duty feared neither man nor weapon. While he was sheriff he showed much skill in the detective work of his office. He was well-informed, sound-judging and companionable.
ENOCHI BAILEY (Charles", Stephen4, James?, John", James', of Rowley ) was son of Charles Bailey and Abigail, daughter of Daniel Safford and Ilan- nah Hovey. He was born October 1, 1771 ; died April 8. 1866. His second wife, Susannah Bangs. was born March 4. 1784: died September 20, 1858.
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Both were buried at East Delavan. His known children of first marriage were: 1. Charles Stewart ( 1811-1877) : his wife named Laura C. ( 1820- 1874). 2. Enoch Henry Martin (born 1820) ; married Amanda Bartlett, . 3. Levi Parsons ( 1823-1874) ; married first, Phoebe S. Lippitt ( 1828-1853) : second, Della Louisa Shumway. 4. Samuel Wills, born 1825, of whom little more is now remembered than that he went westward. The three older sons were men of substance and in business and official ways useful to their town.
CHARLES MINTON BAKER, son of James Baker ( 1779-1851 ) and Eliza- beth Price ( 1780-1870). grandson of David Baker, of Morristown, New Jersey, was born at New York (city). October 18. 1804: the next year his parents went to Addison county, Vermont ; he entered Middlebury College in 1822 ; studied law at Troy in Samuel G. Huntington's office ; was named in a roll of attorneys at Troy in 1831, and also as commissioner of deeds : married, first, Martha W. Larrabee, of Shoreham, Vermont, September 6, 1830: settled on section 1. Linn, in 1838; district attorney 1839-40; married, second, Eliza Holt, July 1, 1841 : served four years in Territorial Council, 1842-6; chair- man of committee on organization of judiciary in first constitutional conven- tion : in 1849 was head of the commission to revise statutes : early in March. 1856, appointed to vacancy in circuit judgeship, but refused nomination at the April election, and hence served but six or seven weeks, holding a term in Raeine county for April. In the latter part of the Civil war he was draft commissioner for his congressional district. In April, 1871, he was chosen justice at Lake Geneva for one year. He died there, February 5, 1872. Mr. Simmons wrote of him: "As a man he was foremost in the promotion of every cause which tended to the real advantage and permanent benefit of his fellow citizens. As a lawyer his talents were of a high order but he was not ambitious to make them known. He was from his early youth a Christian, and was always recognized here as a strong and earnest one, a pillar in the church. the right hand of his pastor, and a chosen leader among his brethren." This testimony is useful since it may explain why Judge Baker did not ask his fellow citizens for high places among them, and why they did not offer many such tokens of their favor.
HENRY BARLOW, son of Nehemiah Barlow and Orinda Steele, was born November 23, 1815, at Ballston. New York; came from Perry, New York. in 1838, to sections 5, 6, Delavan : married July 3. 1841, Emeline. daughter of Daniel Edwin LaBar and Hannah Rees-perhaps the first marriage at Del- avan ; served a few years as supervisor ; was an opposition candidate in 1872 for assemblyman, defeated by Carlos L. Douglass : died August 6, 1884. Mrs. Barlow was born in 1821, near Stroudsburg. Pennsylvania : died September 22, 1890.
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JOHN WHITNEY BARLOW, youngest son of Nehemiah and Orinda, born in western New York, June 26, 1838; appointed from Wisconsin about 1857 as a cadet at the United States Military Academy. West Point ; second lieu- tenant, second artillery, May 6, 1861 ; nine days later first lieutenant ; brevet captain May 27. 1862. for distinguished service at Hanover Court House ; transferred to topographical engineers July 24. 1862; to engineers March 3. 1863 : captain July 3. 1863; brevet major for service in Atlanta campaign : brevet lieutenant-colonel for conduct in battles before Nashville: major of engineers in 1869, and successively lieutenant-colonel and colonel ; superin- tended Tennessee river improvement at Muscle Shoals; performed other engineer services, and in 1901 was retired as brigadier-general. Now living at New London, Connecticut.
NEHEMIAH BARLOW, son of John Barlow and Sarah Whitney, was born December 23, 1781. at Ridgefield, Connecticut ; married at Windham, New York. in August. 1810. Orinda, daughter of Perez Steele and Hannah Sim- mons : came about 1839 from Perry, New York, to Delavan ; died in Darien. in October, 1846. Mrs. Barlow was born at Tolland, Connecticut, April 4. 1792: died January 25, 1876. Their eleven children were: 1 .- Hannah Simmons ( 1811-1907). wife of William Harrison Petit. 2-John Whitney (1813-1838). 3 .- Henry. 4 .- Stephen Steele. 5 .- Mary, wife of Stephen P. Fuller. 6 .- Sarah Anne. wife of Dr. Henderson Hunt. 7 .- Eliza Jane ( 1826-1906), wife of Stephen S. Babcock. 8 .- William Augustus ( 1829- 1908). married Antis Almira Mallory, daughter of Samuel Mallory and Jane rances Hart. 9 .- Harriet, first wife of George Bulkley. 10 .- Emily Wright (born 1834), wife of Henry Pettit. 11 .- John Whitney ( born 1838). Hannah S., William A., and Harriet lived at Elkhorn. Nearly all the others are found in the history of Delavan. Mrs. Orinda ( Steele) Barlow's American an- cestors were: George1. James2 3. Rev. Stephen+. Stephen", Perez". Mr. Bar- low's ancestors came early to New England.
SAMUEL W. BARLOW, whose grandparents are said to have come from England, was born in Niagara county, New York, January 28, 1802; married Almira, daughter of William Wright, was a carpenter, farmer, and Wesleyan preacher ; came to town of Delavan about 1860; died March 24, 1889. His wife was born in 1807: died January 18. 1882. They had seven children. of whom Silas Van Ness Barlow, born January 9. 1835, married Antoinette, daughter of Stephen C. Goff and wife Matilda.
STEPIIEN STEELE BARLOW, son of Nehemiah and Orinda, was born Aug- ust 17, 1818; came to the village of Delavan and was admitted to practice in the territorial courts. Ile married October 4, 1843, Anna Maria, daughter
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of James Parsons and Olive Beach. He was a member of the county board in 1851 ; elected assemblyman in the same year over Perry G. Harrington; moved to Dellona, Sauk county, about 1855; was chosen presidential elector at large in 1868: state senator 1868-9: elected attorney-general in 1869 and 1871 ; died at St. Paul, October 5, 1900.
JOHN BARR was son of Allen Barr, who died at Paisley in 1828. John was born in Renfrewshire in 1792. He married Barbara Black (born in 1789 at St. Andrews). He was bred a shawl-weaver, and on his father's death he came to New York (city). In 1833 he went to Taunton, Massachusetts, and to Fall River in 1840. In 1848 he came to a farm in Linn. He died in 1860 and his wife died in 1873. They had eight children. One of these, George W. Barr, was for several years chairman of the county board.
WILLIAM AYRES BARTLETT, son of Joshua Bartlett and Mrs. Martha (Martin) Phoenix, and half-brother of Henry and Samuel F. Phoenix, was born later than 1800. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Ichabod Brainard and Mary Cleveland, and sister of Cyrus Brainard. She was born about 1804 and died May 29, 1857. Mr. Bartlett was a member for Walworth of the territorial legislature of 1843-4. He seems to have moved from Delavan after 1857.
RICHARD BAXTER BATES, son of Joseph and Esther, was born at West Troy, New York, August 17, 1843: came before 1860 with his parents to Darien : married September 29, 1864, Clara A., daughter of Leander Dodge and Harriet Carter : lived at Delavan and later at Racine ; was national bank examiner 1893-8: died at Milwaukee, May 18, 1910.
ADELAIDE COWLES BEARDSLEY, elder of two daughters of Bennett Beards- ley and first wife. Mrs. Susannah (Johnson), widow of Jetur Gardiner. was born at Walton, Delaware county, New York, June 1. 1815; was baptized in childhood at the Episcopal church of Walton, and in due time truly confirmed, "for her faith never wavered nor were good works once forgotten or neg- lected." The sisters came to Elkhorn in 1843, where she called the children together for non-sectarian primary instruction in Christian doctrine and prac- tice. She also taught in the earlier common school. Every bishop of her diocese, from Kemper to Webb, knew and esteemed her. "She was capable, clear-seeing, justly judging, resolute, and enduring ; and she was always sunny, kind, sympathetic, helpful, modest, self-effacing, womanly-a somewhat re- miarkably endowed person." She died at Elkhorn, June 10, 1907. Her full- sister, Mary Martha, was wife of Col. Edward Elderkin.
NELSON BECKWITH ( Reuben," Asa,' Joseph," Nathaniel Matthew1). born in town of Western. Oneida county, New York ; married Elinor W. Keyes
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(a native of Nova Scotia ) ; lived at East Troy some years each way from 1860; removed to Oceana county, Michigan, and died. His son Alanson married first, Caroline Waters, of East Troy, January 30, 1860; second, Miss Quacken- bush; now lives in Oceana county. Seth Beckwith, not nearly related to any namesakes in the county, came to East Troy with wife Elizabeth in 1839, and in 1842 sold his land, in section 12, to Abel Sperry. Ile may have gone to Omro.
WARREN BECKWITH, son of Silas Beckwith and Polly Green, and grand- son of Silas Beckwith and Esther Fales, of Charlemont, Massachusetts, was born in Westmoreland, Oneida county, New York, August 13, 1827 ; came about 1849 to Geneva, section 3 ; was teacher, farmer, surveyor, civil engineer and town and village magistrate. He married, first, Hannah Vincent ; second, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Prouty; and died at Lake Geneva, August 30, 1904. A brother, Luther (wife Betsey Clute), lived for some years in the county, and moved to Mauston. There is no reason to doubt the descent of these men from Matthew, of Hartford, New London, and Lyme, though names in four generations are wanting.
NATHANIEL BELL, son of James Bell and Isabel Harkness, was born at Truxton, New York, February 22, 1800; married, before 1830, Sarah Leon- ard. daughter of John Cook and Dorcas Case. She was born in 1810 and died January 31, 1847. Major Bell came to section 25, Lafayette; in 1839 was chairman of the first board of county commissioners, and was five times a member of the county board of supervisors. He was the last territorial sheriff, 1845-8. It is not known whence he derived his military title, but he may have been a drum-major, if not a major of New York militia. He, with Riley Harrington and Lot Mayo, with or without General Walling, usually made martial music on patriotic or Democratic occasions. John Bell, his brother, was assemblyman in 1853. His sister, Mary Ann, was wife of Dr. Jesse C. Mills.
WILLIAM BERRY was born at Salem, Massachusetts, December 20, 1780; married April 3, 1798, Nancy Mellen, of Pelham ; moved to Madison county, New York, and thence to Cortland county, where he held for a term a nominal judgeship of the court of common pleas. (From 1823 to 1847 each county of New York having forty thousand inhabitants had such a court, composed of a first judge. who was presumably competent, and four associate judges, in common speech called "side judges." The first judge and at least two of the associates made a quorum; but the latter usually had no voice in the court's rulings and decisions. Some amusing incidents are told of these court orna- ments. ) In 1843 Judge Berry came to Honey Creek, and in 1846 was men-
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ber of the first constitutional convention .-- the oldest member of that body. Because of his delayed attendance he missed assignment to a committee. He died late in 1848. Mellen Berry, his son, died July 5. 1859. He had also a daughter, Sally Ann.
SETH ML. BILLINGS was born at Rutland, Vermont. in 1814 : married Lena Markle February 16, 1855: came to Whitewater in 1839: chosen sheriff in 1860 : enrolled the men of the county liable to military service. in 1863; died at Whitewater, January 18, 1880. A daughter, Mary E .. was wife of Charles Morris Blackman: a son, Henry M., married Emma Pamela, daughter of Colonel Elderkin. Sheriff Billings, though not above medium height and build, was resolute in performance of official duty. He was an upright and intelligent citizen.
WILLIAM BIRGE was eldest of thirteen children. If one of these was George Richmond Birge, son of Elijah Birge and Mary Richmond, who also was an early resident at Whitewater, their ancestors were Richard1 (of Dor- chester in 1630) and wife Elizabeth Gaylord, Daniele 3, Jonathan+, Hosea5, William was born at Hartford, Connecticut, November 18, 1813; came to Jackson, Michigan, from Ithaca, New York, in 1834; with brothers Henry and Leander to Milwaukee and thence to Cold Spring and Whitewater in 1837. Henry's stay was short, but William and Leander stayed to build a city. Will- iam married January 9. 1839. Mary Alvina Nobles, whose father was in busi- ness at Milwaukee. Their son, Julius C., was born November 18. 1839. the first native of Whitewater. Mr. Birge's business activity at Whitewater was an important part of the history of that rising village. He died May 22. 1860. Mrs. Birge was born in 1808 and died March 9, 1892.
MATTHEW P. BISHOP, son of Ira Bishop and Sarah Patrick, born at West Windsor, Vermont. August 15, 1822 ; came by way of western New York to Eagle in 1845 : married, first, Roxana Alvord November 14, 1848: bought a farm in Lagrange in 1865 : his wife died in the same year : married second, his sister-in-law, Mary E. Alvord, in 1873; he died at home, January 1, 1883. He was six times a member of the county board-twice its chairman, and in other ways useful in his town. A son, Charles A. Bishop, became a supreme court judge in łowa.
CHARLES MORRIS BLACKMAN, son of Alva Blackman and .Almira Briggs. was born at Bridgewater. Oneida county, New York, October 10, 1833: came to Stoughton in 1847 and in 1856 engaged in business. In 1863 he came to Whitewater as cashier of the First National Bank, of which he was from 1873 until his death. April 19. 1912, president. He was also a trustee of the White Memorial Library bequest. He married August 13. 1860, Mary E., daughter of Seth M. Billings and Lena Markle.
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DR. ORRIN WILLARD BLANCHARD, a son of Deacon Willard Blanchard and Sarah Platt, was born at Clarendon, Rutland county. Vermont. October 22, 1808, and was academically educated at Auburn, New York. He studied medicine, attended lectures at Castleton, Vermont, and about 1828 was ad- mitted to practice. ( But this date may be suspected of error.) He came to Racine in 1842 and to Delavan in 1847. From 1851 to 1854 he was assistant- surgeon of the regular army at a post in New Mexico, and then returned to Delavan. He served as surgeon of the Fortieth Infantry in 1864, and as surgeon of the Forty-ninth in 1865-both regiments of Wisconsin. He reached and held a high place in his profession. His death was March 25. 1879. His wife, Nancy Foster, was born January, 1811; was married at Arcadia, New York, March 27. 1831 ; died at Delavan, January 9, 1910, within a very few days of her ninety-ninth full year. Of their three sons. Charles Carroll studied and practiced in his father's profession. He had served a half year as private of Company D, Twenty-second Infantry, and under his father as hospital steward of Fortieth and Forty-ninth Infantry. Two other sons of Deacon Willard and Sarah were also physicians. Dr. Caleb Sly Blanchard was born at Victory, Cayuga county, New York, May 8, 1818. He practiced for many years at East Troy. He was a member of the Assembly of 1880, having been elected over John Matheson ( then a Democrat ) and Daniel Kinney Sanford, Greenbacker. Dr. Pliny Willard Blanchard passed over the state line to Rockford, or in that vicinity. There was some maternal cousinship of the Drs. Blanchard with Stephen S. Babcock and his brothers, as indicated by names.
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