. 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. FEANCis M. McDowell was born at Wayne, Steuben Co., N. Y., on the 12th of June, 1831. He was the eldest son of Matthew and Maria McDowell, and was educated in the common school, with the exception of a few terms at an academy. He developed a great taste for reading when a boy, giving up all his leisure to it, from which he derived a great fund of information. During the fall of 1851 he went to Ad
. 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. FEANCis M. McDowell was born at Wayne, Steuben Co., N. Y., on the 12th of June, 1831. He was the eldest son of Matthew and Maria McDowell, and was educated in the common school, with the exception of a few terms at an academy. He developed a great taste for reading when a boy, giving up all his leisure to it, from which he derived a great fund of information. During the fall of 1851 he went to Adrian, N. Y., and soon after became interested with Mr. Samuel Hallett in the lumber business. When the Bank of Hornellsville was organized, in 1854, he was elected cashier. In January, 1857, the firm of Samuel Hallett & Co. was formed, of which he was a member, and he removed to New York and took charge of the business during Mr. Hallett's two years' absence in Europe on important railroad negotiations. During the next few years Mr. McDowell visited Europe several times in the interest of the firm, and while there traveled extensively in England and on the continent. He was married in London, in October, 1861, to Sarah Josephine Spang, daughter of Charles F. Spang, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who died abroad in 1868, where she had been some years for her health. In 1863 he was one of the firm who took the contract to build the Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern Division, now known as the Kansas Pacific, and had charge of their office in New York. Owing to difficulties with Gen. John C. Fremont, this firm was dissolved, and the construction of the road was continued by Mr. Samuel Hallett until his death. During the winter of 1867-68 he was one of seven gentlemen who founded the order known as the Patrons of Husbandry. Soon after he was elected treasurer of the National Grange, which office he still holds. This order has a larger mem- bership than any order ever organized in the United
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