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Agur Fairchild was born in Connecticut, married there, and before 1800 came to Remsen township and located in that section called 'Fairchild Corners', or 'Fairchild', about two miles northeast of the village. His children were Diana, Betsey, Martha, Barbara, Charlotte, Ingersoll, French, and Samuel. The first two named never lived in Remsen. Mr. Fairchild died here January 1, 1840, aged ninety years; and Amy, his wife, died April 17, 1839, aged eighty-five years. French Fairchild married Ann, daughter of Gershom Hinckley. They had two sons, Rev. Gershom Fairchild, a Wesleyan minister, born in Remsen in 1809, and as late as 1896 living at Nankin, Wayne county, Mich., and French Fairchild, Jr., who married Mary Tanner of Deerfield, NY, by whom he had six sons and one daughter. He removed to Liverpool, NY, was a successful farmer, and died there. Ingersoll Fairchild removed to western New York before 1820. Samuel married Eleanor, daughter of William R. Roberts, of Remsen, and removed with his family to Monoa county, Iowa, where he died aobut 1866.
A Narrative History of Remsen New York including parts of adjoining townships of Steuben and Trenton 1789-1898, by Millard F. Roberts, pub. 1914
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Hon. L. W. Fiske was born in Boonville in 1835, son of John M. Fiske and grandson of Jeremiah Fiske, of the widely known Rhode Island family. After acquiring a good academic education at Worchester and Fairfield, he entered the law office of George W. Smith, where diligent application and inherent ability resulted in admission to the bar October 4, 1860, and the establishment of an extensive practice at Boonville. He went to the front with Company D. of the 146th Regiment in August 1862, but exposure and hardship resulted in disability and almost total deafness; an unfortunate handicap for his talent as an attorney. In 1866, Mr. Fiske was elected to the Assembly, where he acquitted himself to the credit of himself and satisfaction of his constituents. The late Roscoe Conkling was an intimate personal friend of Mr. Fiske. In local affairs he has taken an active place in village government; in establishment of the NY State Soldier's Home; in the administration of the Grand Army organization; and as librarian of the Erwin Library.
Our County and its People, a Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York, edited by Daniel E. Wager, 1896
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FOX, HENRY (p. 10)
Fox, Henry, was born in Marcy, Oneida county, September 20, 1830, a son of Abraham and Nancy (Vanderwarker) Fox, natives of Connecticut and Oneida county, N.Y., respectively, grandson of Abraham Fox, son of Abraham Fox, who settled on Tug Hill, Lewis county, N.Y. in 1806.  His maternal grandfather, John A. Vanderwarker, a native of Schoharie county, N.Y., was a pioneer of Western.  Henry Fox was reared in Western from ten years of age, and was educated in the common schools and Whitestown Seminary, and is a basket maker by trade, which he has followed more or less for forty years in connection with farming, and has lived on the farm he now occupies since 1841.  In 1854 he married Polly, daughter of Uriah Fitch, of Steuben, by whom he had three children: Ernest L., an M.E. clergyman of N.Y., Lucy A., and Sylvia F., a city missionary in New York since 1889.  Mr. Fox married for his second wife, Margaret A., daughter of Jacob Wollaber, of Steuben.  Mr. Fox is a member of the M.E. church, of which he is a local preacher, and in politics is a Prohibitionist.
"Our County and its People, a Decriptive Work on Oneida County, New York", edited by Daniel E. Wager, 1896


James H. Franklin was born in Ava, Oneida county, NY, September 10, 1828, son of Gilbert and Sarah (Farr) Franklin, he a native of Herkimer county, NY and she of Remsen, Oneida county, NY. David Franklin, the great-grandfather of James H., was born in England, emigrated to America prior to the Revolution, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and there died, leaving a widow and three children: James, Wait and Mary Franklin. The grandfather, James Franklin, came from Connectiut to Herkimer county, thence to Remsen, Oneida county, where he died in 1825. The maternal grandparents, Peris and Dolly (Foster) Farr, came from New Hampshire and settled in Remsen where they died. Gilbert Franklin, father of James H., came to Ava in 1826, and settled on the farm now owned by his son. He purchased 154 acres of land, then an unbroken wilderness, and cleared 130 acres. He died in 1854 and his wife died in 1885. James H. was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. He taught school nine winters, farming summers, and now owns a farm of 192 acres with a dairy of about thirty cows. In 1858 he married Caroline, daughter of David Tuthill of Ava, by whom he had three children: John C., a farmer on the homestead, Ellsworth D., proprietor of a cheese factory at Hillside, NY; Elwin J., who died at twenty-four years of age. Mr. Franklin is a Democrat in politics, has been commissioner of highways and is now assessor of his town.
Our County and its People, a Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York, edited by Daniel E. Wager, 1896
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