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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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