Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . into the butcheringbusiness, and followed it for three he sold out, and removed to Ogden,Monroe County, to a one-hundred-and-sixtyacre piece of timber land that he had boughtand had partially cleared before his marriage,which occurred just before his removal fromLima. After living two years at Ogden, heremoved to Rush, where he bought a fift3-acrefarm, and remained five years, when he soldout and bought one hundred and sixty acres ofimproved land located in the town of A
Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . into the butcheringbusiness, and followed it for three he sold out, and removed to Ogden,Monroe County, to a one-hundred-and-sixtyacre piece of timber land that he had boughtand had partially cleared before his marriage,which occurred just before his removal fromLima. After living two years at Ogden, heremoved to Rush, where he bought a fift3-acrefarm, and remained five years, when he soldout and bought one hundred and sixty acres ofimproved land located in the town of log cabin and a frame house were on thisproperty; and they served him for about nineyears, when he built the fine residence nowoccupied by the subject of this sketch, and hereresided until his death, at the age of sixty-four, in 1868. His wife was Lois Stevens, daughter ofPhineas and Mary (Williams) Stevens; andhis children were Mary L., Aaron, and Mary married Dr. James E. Jenks,of Avon, is now a widow, and has twochildren — William and Louisa M. married Holliday Williams, of. AARON BARBER. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 337 Irattsburg, Steuben County, , and hadthree children — Frank, Aaron, and LoisWilliams, and like her sister is now a widow. Aaron Barber, the third of the name, wasborn in the town of Rush, July 6, 1836. Heis well educated, having pursued his studiesin boyhood and early youth in the Avon dis-trict schools, in Lima Seminary, and in theRochester Academy. He has made a businessof farming from the very first, and has con-tinued to reside on the Avon homestead. has greatly improved the property;and the farm buildings, which were built byhim, are the finest ones to be found in thebeautiful and prosperous town of Avon. Forthe past twenty-five years he has been engagedin breeding short-horned cattle, of which hehas one of the finest herds in the L^nitedStates. Mr. Barber was married on December 22,1862, to Caroline B. Hall, daught
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