. Portrait and biographical record of Seneca and Schuyler counties, New York . of his bladedesired to be pitted with him again. With allhis eloquence as an orator he never spoke for ora-torical effect, but his words always went like bul-lets to the mark. He is purel)- American in hisideas, and is a splendid type of the Americanstatesman. Gifted with quick perception, a logi-cal mind and a ready tongue, he is one of themost distinguished impromptu speakers in thenation. Many of these speeches sparkled with therarest eloquence and contained arguments of greatweight, and many of his terse stateme
. Portrait and biographical record of Seneca and Schuyler counties, New York . of his bladedesired to be pitted with him again. With allhis eloquence as an orator he never spoke for ora-torical effect, but his words always went like bul-lets to the mark. He is purel)- American in hisideas, and is a splendid type of the Americanstatesman. Gifted with quick perception, a logi-cal mind and a ready tongue, he is one of themost distinguished impromptu speakers in thenation. Many of these speeches sparkled with therarest eloquence and contained arguments of greatweight, and many of his terse statements havealready become aphorisms. Original in thought,precise in logic, terse in statement, j-et withalfaultless in eloquence, he is recognized as thesound statesman and brilliant orator of the the last days of his administration Presi-dent Harrison suffered an irreparable loss in thedeath of his devoted wife, Caroline (Scott) Har-rison, a lady of many womanly charms and vir-tues. They were the parents of two children. S§N§CA AND §6HUYl5§R 60UNTI§S NEW YORK. INTRODUCTORY HE time has arrived when it becomes the duty of the people of this county to perpetuate- thenames of their pioneers, to furnish a record of their early settlement, and relate the storv oftheir progress. The civilization of our day, the enlightenment of the age, and the duty thatmen of the present time owe to their ancestors, to themselves and to their posterity, demand that arecord of their lives and deeds should be made. In biographical history is found a power to instructman by precedent, to enliven the mental faculties, and to waft down the river of time a safevessel in which the and actions of the people who contributed to this couiitr>- from itsprimitive state may be preserved. Surely and rapidh- the great and aged men, who in tlieir primeentered the and claimed the virgin soil as their heritage, are to their number remaining who can relate t
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