. 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. 150 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. married Evelina B. (born March 26, 1808), daughter of Samuel Baker, who was one of the pioneers of the town of Howard. In early life he began lumbering, and then, without means, with three other young men, built a saw-mili in Rathbone (then Addison). For some forty years he followed this business quite successfully, shipping his lumber by means of rafts do
. 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. 150 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK. married Evelina B. (born March 26, 1808), daughter of Samuel Baker, who was one of the pioneers of the town of Howard. In early life he began lumbering, and then, without means, with three other young men, built a saw-mili in Rathbone (then Addison). For some forty years he followed this business quite successfully, shipping his lumber by means of rafts down the Canisteo, Chemung, and Susque- hanna Rivers to Port Deposit and Havre de Grace. For a few years in the latter part of his life he has been con- nected with the tanning business. With marked patriotism and loyalty, July, 1862, he raised a company, of which he was made captain, and. some four houses in the settlement, and is now able to look back and, as he sees its growth to a thriving village of some two thousand inhabitants, to say, " All of this T saw and part of this I ; with the 107th New York Volunteers went to the front. After the battle of Antietam,—in which his company was engaged,—on account of failing health, he left the army at Hope's Landing, and came to Ehnira, where he was made commissioner of the board of enrollment, which position he occupied for about one year and a half, and resigned his place. Capt. Miles was formerly a member of the Whig party, and has been active in the Republican ranks. For several terms he has been chosen supervisor of the towns of Cam- eron and Addison, as his residence has been in one of those towns, and in the year 1851 he represented Steuben County in the State Legislature, and served on the committee on Charitable and Religious Societies. He and his wife have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1830, and he has assisted in the establishment and build- ing of nearly all the church edifices in
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