. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. utchesscounty. Eight years afterward (1830), with hiswife and two children he followed the course ofthe setting sun until he reached Chautauquacounty, and soon found a home in the town ofSherman. A few years later he moved to Han-over town and lived there until he died. Hismarriage resulted in nine children, four ofwhom are still living: Mrs. Emily Wood, andWilliam Record, of Versailles, Cattarauguscounty ; John G., a lawyer of Forestville; andMrs. N. Babcoek, of Silver Creek, at whosehome he died. Israel Record was less th
. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. utchesscounty. Eight years afterward (1830), with hiswife and two children he followed the course ofthe setting sun until he reached Chautauquacounty, and soon found a home in the town ofSherman. A few years later he moved to Han-over town and lived there until he died. Hismarriage resulted in nine children, four ofwhom are still living: Mrs. Emily Wood, andWilliam Record, of Versailles, Cattarauguscounty ; John G., a lawyer of Forestville; andMrs. N. Babcoek, of Silver Creek, at whosehome he died. Israel Record was less than two years of ageu hen the present century began, and kind natureseeming to realize that a man of that day mustbe iiossessed of great bodily and mental strength,endowed him with a massive physique and amind and will commensurate. His memory wasa wonderful store-house of knowledge, and it issaid that within a lew days after PresidentCh^velands inaugural address was published herepeated it verbatini and reniemberrd it per-fectly until he died. Dates and places, laws. OF (IIACTAUUIA COINTY. 107 and State fiuistitutioiis, anieiulniciits and themen wlio advocated llieni were as familiar tohis memory wiicii past eighty years of age as tothe eye of an oidinary man when looking attiieprinted page of an open book, and when lie oneeasserted the correctness of a statement it wasuseless to refer to a book f()r corroborative pioof—he was always found to be correct. His fiiilh in deiuocriicy was as strong as themost devout Christians in religion. An ex-pression once made, referring to liim, said :Counter arguments, however good or impres-sive, fall as powerless as i-aindrops on a graniteboulder. He endured the twenty-eight yearsof republican rule with outspoken condtMiinationand contempt, and probably no man in thecountry more sincerely welcomed, or was madeso supremely happy by the democratic victoryof 1884 and the change of administration in1885. He was tender towards his family and lt
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