. 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. Mil. B. F. REV. BENJAMIN F. BALCOM was born in Oxford, Chenango Co., ^N". Y., January 11, 1810. His grandfather, Henry Balcom, was born in Worcester Co., Mass., and married Keziah Stowe. In 1790 they migrated from the State of Vermont to Chenango Co., N. Y. Of this union there were seven children,—Khoda, Fanny, Francis, Lefa, Samuel, Olive, and Sally. Mrs. Balcom was an exemplary Ch
. 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. Mil. B. F. REV. BENJAMIN F. BALCOM was born in Oxford, Chenango Co., ^N". Y., January 11, 1810. His grandfather, Henry Balcom, was born in Worcester Co., Mass., and married Keziah Stowe. In 1790 they migrated from the State of Vermont to Chenango Co., N. Y. Of this union there were seven children,—Khoda, Fanny, Francis, Lefa, Samuel, Olive, and Sally. Mrs. Balcom was an exemplary Christian, and was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church in Oxford in 1799. Of these children, Samuel was father of the subject of this narrative, and married Polly Knapp, in the year 1800, in Oxford; was a farmer and lumberman by occupation, and worked some as a millwright, and at one time purchased some five thousand acres of land in Steuben Co., N. Y. Their children were Judge Lyman Balcom, of Painted Post; Eliza (Widow Pearsall), of Owego, 1^. Y.; Luke (de- ceased); Fayette, of Oxford; Benjamin F. ; Harriet (Mrs. William Rhoads), of Wisconsin ; TJri, of Chicago; Judge Ransom Balcom, of Binghamton ; and George, of Kansas. The father died at the age of seventy-five, in Oxford, in the year 1847. The mother died at the age of seventy-five, in the year 1852. Benjamin F. Balcom remained at home until he was eighteen, during which time he received only a limited education. In the year 1828 he came to this county, returned in the fall of the same year, and Jan. 8, 1829, married Eliza A., daughter of Russell and Charlotte Root, of Oxford, N. Y.; she was born Sept. 13, 1810. In July of the same year he moved his goods with an ox-team through the country from Oxford, and settled at Campbell, on the farm now owned by Daniel Curtis. With his father's assistance he built two saw-mills, house, and barn, and began clearing off" the original forest. To give a narrative of fact
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