. 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. ^'-"J:'V^/>. -.'v^'. MRS. HARRY GODFREY. /^ARRY GODFREY. HARRY GODFREY was born in the town of South East, Dutchess Co., N. Y.^ July 8, 1802. He was the eldest son in a family of twelve children of Joseph and Polly Godfrey. The former was a cooper by trade, and spent most of his life as a lumberman and farmer. He died at Ithaca, N. Y., at the age of seventy-five. The latter died at the ag
. 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. ^'-"J:'V^/>. -.'v^'. MRS. HARRY GODFREY. /^ARRY GODFREY. HARRY GODFREY was born in the town of South East, Dutchess Co., N. Y.^ July 8, 1802. He was the eldest son in a family of twelve children of Joseph and Polly Godfrey. The former was a cooper by trade, and spent most of his life as a lumberman and farmer. He died at Ithaca, N. Y., at the age of seventy-five. The latter died at the age of seventy, at the residence of her son Joseph, in Detroit, Mich. The children are Harry, Philo, of Dryden, Tompkins Co.; John (deceased), David (deceased), Ira (deceased), George (deceased), Jeremiah, of Detroit, Mich.; Joseph (deceased), Mary Ann (deceased), Hannah, Almira (deceased), and Ursula (deceased). At the age of sixteen Mr. Godfrey went into the busy world for himself, worked by the jnonth for four years tending saw-mill and lumbering, receiving a part of the time nine dollars per month. At the age of twenty he came to Steuben County, and purchased some forty-four acres of timber land in the town of Pulteney, of Dugald Cameron, agent of the land- office. To this purchase he made additions until he had seven hundred acres at one time. He met the obstacles of the pioneer, and endured the privations of the early settler, in making his beginning in the new country; but his subsequent successful career has shown that he then laid the foundation for the remarkable business interest which he has lived many years to carry on. In 1822 he married Thersa, daughter of Seth and Catherine Weed, of Pulteney. She was born in the county of West Chester, June 16,1806, the ever memor- able day of the great eclipse of the sun. Mr. Godfrey remained a farmer and private broker in the town of Pulteney until 1874, when he removed to Prattsburgh, where he now resides. He has lived to watch
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