. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. DAVID S. WAIT. MRS. DAVID S. WAIT. DAYID S. WAIT was born in the town of Coliocton, on the farm where he now resides, Sept. 15, 1825. His father, Duty Wait, a native of West Greenwich, Kent Co., R. I., was born March 21, 1785, and married Hannah Wells, of Peters- burgh, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Jan. 29, 1807. She was born June 12,1790. They resided in the town of Peters- burgh for seven years, and
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. DAVID S. WAIT. MRS. DAVID S. WAIT. DAYID S. WAIT was born in the town of Coliocton, on the farm where he now resides, Sept. 15, 1825. His father, Duty Wait, a native of West Greenwich, Kent Co., R. I., was born March 21, 1785, and married Hannah Wells, of Peters- burgh, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Jan. 29, 1807. She was born June 12,1790. They resided in the town of Peters- burgh for seven years, and removed to this county, settling in the town of Cohocton, July 4, 1814, on one hundred and four acres of land, to which Mr. David S. Wait has made additions, and now owns some six hundred acres. Mr. Wait, Sr., was one of the pioneers of the Conhocton Valley, was a farmer during the remainder of his life, and cleared off the greater part of his land. He was a man of strict integrity of character, upright in all his business re- lations, quite active as a member of the Democratic party, for several years was assessor of the town, and was respected by all who knew him. He died Feb. 25, 1855. His wife died April 16, 1858. Their children were five sons and seven daughters, of whom the subject of this narrative was the third son. He received a good education in the common school and Frank- lin Academy, and assisted his father on the farm during his minority. At the age of twenty he became a teacher, and for five terms was a successful instructor. He learned surveying in a mathematical school at Bath, taught by a cadet of West Point, and from the age of twenty-three to thirty-three was on the farm with his father, and did considerable surveying, which he continues until the present time. In 1859 he married Mary, daughter of Adin and Nancy (Kenyon) Parmenter, of Wayland. She was born Feb. 17, 1831; is a lady of rare intelligence, and was a successful teacher of common and select school
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