. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. r), was born in 1786, and died inFebruary, 1853. He inherited the industry andperseverance of his father, and judiciously andsuccessfully improved his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits,and while confining his field of labor to his owncounty, yet ranked as one of the foremost andmost substantial farmers of the State. Hemarried Polly Sawyer, who was a native ofNew Hampshire and a member of the well-known Sawyer family of tiiat State. She passedaway in 1842, at forty-six years of age. Rufus
. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. r), was born in 1786, and died inFebruary, 1853. He inherited the industry andperseverance of his father, and judiciously andsuccessfully improved his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits,and while confining his field of labor to his owncounty, yet ranked as one of the foremost andmost substantial farmers of the State. Hemarried Polly Sawyer, who was a native ofNew Hampshire and a member of the well-known Sawyer family of tiiat State. She passedaway in 1842, at forty-six years of age. Rufus Haywood grew to manhood on thefarm, received his education at Jaffrey academy,and then was engaged for five years in teachingin the district .schools of New Hampshire. Atthe end of that time he went to Wiuchendon,Mass., where for over one year he conducted abutcher shop and livery stable. He thenreturned to Jalfrey, property onwhich he built, and embarked in farming andmerchandising. After three years he removedto Cambriilge, Mass., where, in company with. OF VJIAUTAUQUA COUMT): 93 H. 0. Hougliton, lie oi)gn<^c(l in jjiihlisliiiig law-bodUs for one year, and then spent several yearsin the west. While in Illinois he kept a hotelfor one year at Belvidere, and acted as teller fortwo years in a bank of that plaec, durinoj whichtime he lost over seven Ihonsand dollars byspeculating in corn. Leaving Belvidere, hepurchased a larni near Chicago, and embarkedin the cattle business. With remarkable fore- siglit he looked foi-ward (o a brigiit future for !Chicago, saw in its commanding position thecertainty of its future commercial supremacy asone of the great cities of the American continent,and invested in that city largely in real estate,which yielded him handsome returns in his salesof the same. In ISilo he settled in Erocton,this county, and engaged for several years in thestock business. In 1S61 he and his brother,Albert Haywood, and a Mr. Hubbell, formed apartnership
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