Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . many years was a pensioner. is an active member of the Church ofthe United Brethren. Three children have been born to Mr. andMrs. Prentice; and of these Emma, who mar-ried Edgar Wilcox, of Perry, died in that vil-lage, in September, 1885, aged thirty-fouryears, leaving two sons and two daughters, oneof whom, Alfred S., is married, and has abright little girl named Edith. Walter E.,a resident of Orangeville, is a widower, withtwo children. William B, has a wife and four
Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . many years was a pensioner. is an active member of the Church ofthe United Brethren. Three children have been born to Mr. andMrs. Prentice; and of these Emma, who mar-ried Edgar Wilcox, of Perry, died in that vil-lage, in September, 1885, aged thirty-fouryears, leaving two sons and two daughters, oneof whom, Alfred S., is married, and has abright little girl named Edith. Walter E.,a resident of Orangeville, is a widower, withtwo children. William B, has a wife and fourchildren, two of them being twin sons. ?^^NELSON SLOCUM, a prosperous farmerand one of the oldest citizens inWarsaw, was born in WashingtonCounty, Rhode Island, May 13,1814. He was the son of Peleg and Cathe-rine (Hoxie) Slocum. His grandfather, alsonamed Peleg Slocum, was one of the earliestsettlers of Rhode Island; and, though he wasa weaver by trade, he owned a small farm,where he spent the greater part of his lived to be over eighty years of age, andreared five sons and four daughters, none of. JOHN HANBY. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 607 whom are now living. The younger PelegSlocum, father of Nelson Slocum, was born inNewport Kay, In 1830 he removed toWyoming County, New York, at that County, travelling by boat to Albany,thence by canal to Brockport, and from thereby stage and teams to his destination, the Jour-ney occupying fifteen days. This was shortlyafter the completion of the lirie Canal, calledin derision De Witt Clintons ditch, butnow acknowledged as one of the greatest com-mercial thoroughfares in the world. It thenopened for settlement a region of great fertil-ity ; and Mr. Slocum, though a carpenter andjoiner by trade, purchased a farm of ninety-three acres, which was under but little cultiva-tion, and had .several log houses built upon was a hard worker; and his by his ., as he increased his farmfrom ninety-th
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