. 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. TOWN OF ADDISON. 151 W. (died in 1852, at the age of twenty-five), a lawyer; Walter H. (died at the age of twenty-five, in the year 1854), lumberman ; Henry (admitted to the bar in 1853, supervisor of the town of Addison, 1859-61. Raised a company in 1861, and as captain joined the 34:th N. Y. Vols. Was with his company and regiment through the first campaign of the Shenandoah Valley, at Yorktown
. 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. TOWN OF ADDISON. 151 W. (died in 1852, at the age of twenty-five), a lawyer; Walter H. (died at the age of twenty-five, in the year 1854), lumberman ; Henry (admitted to the bar in 1853, supervisor of the town of Addison, 1859-61. Raised a company in 1861, and as captain joined the 34:th N. Y. Vols. Was with his company and regiment through the first campaign of the Shenandoah Valley, at Yorktown, West Point, Fair Oaks, and Seven Pines, the seven days' retreat of McClellan to the Potomac, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. In 1867 he was brevetted major, and in 1868, colonel. His business is farming and lumbering) ; James, a banker at Addison ; Rufus, Jr. (died young) ; Pamelia (deceased), wife of Hon. Byron Gr. Stout, of Pontiac, Mich.; and R. Haskell Baldwin, died JOEL D. GILLET was born in Colchester, Conn., August 27, 1809. The Gillet family were among the early settlers of that place. His father, Solomon Gillet, was also a native of Colchester; was a farmer by occupation; married Martha Doolittle, of Russell, Mass., sister of Mark Doolittle, member of Con- gress, and also sister of Judge Joel Doolittle, of Middle- bury, Vt. Their children were Solomon L., of Elmira, N.* Y.; Mrs. Martin G. Clapp (deceased), of Watertown, N. Y.; Joel D. Gillet, of Addison, N. Y.; Russell, who resides on the homestead, in Colchester, Conn.; Mrs. John 0. Loomis, of Coventry, Conn.; Aaron G., of Langdon, Minn.; Charles E., of Oakland, Cal. The father died March, 1856, at the age of eighty-three; the mother died 1871, aged ninety-three. Mr. Joel D. Gillet spent his minority on the farm and at school, except that he was engaged several terms as a teacher of common schools. Upon reaching his majority he took charge of his father's farm, which he carried on until October, 1835, when he
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