. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. d the store of Webster Mer-rell, later spending a year at Clinton and Cazenovia. He after-wards engaged in business at Earlville, but returned to Smyrnain 1858. A capable and competent business man, he found nodifficulty in securing employment in most any line, holding va-rious offices which he was exceedingly well qualified to fill. Moreconcerning Mr. Shepardsons political career will be found in thetoast Our Public Men which appears in another part of thisvolume. His wife was Emma, a daughter of John and Mary Dalmon,genteel English people,
. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. d the store of Webster Mer-rell, later spending a year at Clinton and Cazenovia. He after-wards engaged in business at Earlville, but returned to Smyrnain 1858. A capable and competent business man, he found nodifficulty in securing employment in most any line, holding va-rious offices which he was exceedingly well qualified to fill. Moreconcerning Mr. Shepardsons political career will be found in thetoast Our Public Men which appears in another part of thisvolume. His wife was Emma, a daughter of John and Mary Dalmon,genteel English people, and by her were four children, the young-est Albert L., a young man of brightest promise,who passed awayin the spring of 1882, at sixteen years of age. The oldest son,Walter A., is a prominent farmer in the town of Otselic, and atpresent is the efficient County Clerk of Chenango County. Hiswife is a daughter of the late Ery W. Stokes, and they have oneson, E Stokes, now fifteen years of age. Mary E., the only daughter, married Edward P. Lyon of 70. ANDREW SHEPARDSON. Our First Old Home Week Brooklyn, N. Y,, and they have an interesting family of fourchildren and a pleasant home in the City of Churches. John W., the only representative of the family now in town,was born here forty-six years ago, and ably takes his fathersplace as a prominent business man. He is our present Super-visor, recently re-elected by a large majority, and like his father,an ardent Republican, standing high in the councils of his party,He retains the agency of the New York, Ontario & WesternRailroad Company, succeeding his brother, Walter A., in thespring of 1878. It will thus be seen that the agency has been inthat family since the opening of the road, in November, 1869, acontinuous succession of thirty-six years. Mr. Shepardson mar-ried Maria B., a daughter of Charles W. PerLee, and they havetwo children. Alice M., the older, married John T. McGovern,of New York, and Charles A., the younger, is a steno
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