History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . subject, was a soldierof the Revolution, and was engaged in the defense of NewLondon, Conn., against the burning by Benedict Arnold, in 18()4, Elisha, father of Hiram, emigrated from Washing-ton County to Onondaga County, and settled in the town ofFabius, where he was an early settler. He was a farmer, andbecame one of the prominent citizens of that county, and diedin Fabius in the sixtieth year of his age. He was a man ofun(|Ucstioned integrity and of temperate
History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . subject, was a soldierof the Revolution, and was engaged in the defense of NewLondon, Conn., against the burning by Benedict Arnold, in 18()4, Elisha, father of Hiram, emigrated from Washing-ton County to Onondaga County, and settled in the town ofFabius, where he was an early settler. He was a farmer, andbecame one of the prominent citizens of that county, and diedin Fabius in the sixtieth year of his age. He was a man ofun(|Ucstioned integrity and of temperate and industrious was customary in those days, Hiram acknowledged obliga-tion to his parents in his labor until he attained his he went to Yates County he had acquired a good common-school education, which he made practically useful to himselfand others by teaching. In 1825 he married Miss Betsey, daughter of Samuel Wallace,of Fultney, Steuben Co., N. Y., where she was born in 1802. After their marriage they purchased a farm in the town ofItaly, Yates County, where he remained until March 3, 1832,. HOf^ACE
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