Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . y R. Justus F. marriedMiss Delia Clark, of Massachusetts, and isnow living in Independence, la.; he iias nochild. Reuben, whose wifes maiden namewas Helen Thayer, has four children —Charles H., Grace, Ernest ()., and Helen;he lives in Alden, Mich. Mr. Coy has held several oflSces in his townand county, among others that of inspector ofelections and School Trustee. Both he andhis wife are members of the First Presbyte-rian church, of which he hasfor a period of thirty years,dential
Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . y R. Justus F. marriedMiss Delia Clark, of Massachusetts, and isnow living in Independence, la.; he iias nochild. Reuben, whose wifes maiden namewas Helen Thayer, has four children —Charles H., Grace, Ernest ()., and Helen;he lives in Alden, Mich. Mr. Coy has held several oflSces in his townand county, among others that of inspector ofelections and School Trustee. Both he andhis wife are members of the First Presbyte-rian church, of which he hasfor a period of thirty years,dential vote was cast for J. been a firm supporter of the principles ofRepublicanism since the party known as Re-publican first promulgated its principles. been a DeaconHis first Presi-Adams, and he -f^TENRY L. SHARP, farmer, a highly l-~l respected citizen of Mount Morris, \\s I Livingston County, , where ^*^ he has been a resident for many years, was born in Springport, Cayuga County, August 6, 1825. His grandfather, Andrew Sharp, who was a native of Holland, came to America with a brother, Henry, when. CHESTER A. COLE. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW i6g a young man, and took up his abode in Kin-derhook, Columbia County, He mar-ried a Miss Bojardus, and for some time theymade their home in that county; but at lengththey removed to Cayuga County. After manyyears of useful toil they were gathered totheir rest, Grandfather Sharp being ninety-twoyears of age at the time of his death. His son Ephraim, the father of the subjectof this sketch, was born in Kinderhook, andthere growing to manhood learned the tailorstrade. He resided in Springport, CayugaCounty, for a number of years, and thence in1826 removed to Livingston County, arrivingon the Ridge about the 1st of May, the jour-ney being made in teams. He purchasedninety-nine acres of land, sixty of which werecleared, the rest being covered with timber,and here lived in a log cabin for a few years,after which he built a frame house.
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