. History of Montgomery and Fulton counties, : with illustrations and portraits of old pioneers and prominent residents . o Onehundred and thirtieth street. New York, part of an extensive system ofworks for the improvement of the Hudson River front of the up-town pur-tion of the metropolis. His well nigh infallible judgment of the cost of aproposed work has made his labors as profitable to himself as they aresatisfactory to the capitalists who have availed themselves of his serviics. Mr. Decker married, in 1S45, a daughter of .Mr. J. B. .Mathews of Johns-town, where he has built a s|ilend
. History of Montgomery and Fulton counties, : with illustrations and portraits of old pioneers and prominent residents . o Onehundred and thirtieth street. New York, part of an extensive system ofworks for the improvement of the Hudson River front of the up-town pur-tion of the metropolis. His well nigh infallible judgment of the cost of aproposed work has made his labors as profitable to himself as they aresatisfactory to the capitalists who have availed themselves of his serviics. Mr. Decker married, in 1S45, a daughter of .Mr. J. B. .Mathews of Johns-town, where he has built a s|ilendid country seat, at which, and at ,;.i,he spends his summers, living the rest of the year at his house in Filihavenue, New York. Two children have been born to him, neither o(whom is now living. Mr. Decker is characterized in person by a musi ular form of incil.;:mheight, excellently preserved in advanced years; in the expression of Inscountenance, by intelligence and firmness ; in his manner, by ; in his tastes, by simplicity and rcfinemcni, and in his ,by uprightness and LLE. 201 rom 1845 to 1856, managing a blacksmith shop in theIn 1857 he built the first planing mill in the county,rst block of plank similar to those now used for cut-first buffalo coat made in the county. - of this century there is said to have been a tavern keptKisite the northeast corner of Prospect Hill a public house about 1807. te, William C. Mills built grist and fulling mills, nearluse now stands. The grist-mill, indeed, is said to havesection of the country, though there is a tradition of \ by J. Mathews. Both would doubtless have beent of Sir William Johnson, near Johnson Hall. Theliam C. Mills passed into the hands of his son ihilo,tterwas killed in 1S35 by the overturnmg upon hun ofwhich he was traveling to Schenectady. Ihe grjst-the possession of his son Sidney, who sold •! to ned the first store in Gloversville isite the site of the
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