. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. t quality of that esculent fruit. Grow-ing grape roots for market is anotiier specialtyin which he indulges. For seven years he hasbeen secretary of the Chautauqua Horticulturalsociety. In religion he is a Baptist, being amember of the church of that denomination inFredonia. He has been a member of the boardof trustees of Fredonia for several Shepard Crissey was married in Decem-ber, 1859, to Mary A. Leonard, a daughter ofGeorge V. and Anna Leonard of Fredonia, bywhom he has had three children, all sons: Jay,bo


. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. t quality of that esculent fruit. Grow-ing grape roots for market is anotiier specialtyin which he indulges. For seven years he hasbeen secretary of the Chautauqua Horticulturalsociety. In religion he is a Baptist, being amember of the church of that denomination inFredonia. He has been a member of the boardof trustees of Fredonia for several Shepard Crissey was married in Decem-ber, 1859, to Mary A. Leonard, a daughter ofGeorge V. and Anna Leonard of Fredonia, bywhom he has had three children, all sons: Jay,born January 15, 1861, who is principal of tiieacademy at Belmont, Allegany county. NewYork, and who married Alice Kennedy; GeorgeH., born December 24, 1862, and now a resi-dent of California; and Howard B., born Feb-ruary 22, 1864 and died October 11, 1889,while a junior at Cornell University, Ithaca,New York. Mrs. Crissey died May 31, 1868,and S. S. Crissey married January 15, 1871,Mrs. Ella K. Wright, widow of A. J. Wright,, of Fredonia and by her has had two. MAJOR E. A, CURTIS. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 133 children, sons: Newton K., horn -Inly 12, 1873;ami Lester, horn in 1877 but died in inCisncy. e ENOCH A. CUUTIS, a successful *■ architect of Fredonia and a prominentpost and encampment commander in the GrandArmy of the Republic, is a son of Isaac C. andSusan H. (Hunter) Curtis, and was born in thetown of Busiti, Ciiautaurpia county, New York,July 19, 1836. Enoch A. Curtis is of Scotch-Irish descent on his paternal side and his grand-father. Rev. Enoch Curtis, was born in NewHampshire. He was an itinerant minister ofthe Methodist Episcopal church, removed toPennsylvania and afterwards died in Cattarau-gus county, this State. His sou, Isaac C. Cur-tis, the father of Enoch A. Curtis, was born inTioga county, Penusylvania, where he marriedSusan Hunter, a native of the same county. In1834 he settled on a farm in the town of died in 1881, aged seventy-t


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