Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . poor health re-signed, and has been Highway Commissionermany years. In the Methodist church, ofwhich his family are also members, he hasheld the ofifice of superintendent for twentyyears, being class leader for thirty years, andtaking a very active part at all times in theaffairs of the society, being also the firstsuperintendent of the Sunday-school who hascontinued to conduct its sessions in the win-ter time. Mrs. Russell was also a Sunday-school teacher, and is a personal force
Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York .. . poor health re-signed, and has been Highway Commissionermany years. In the Methodist church, ofwhich his family are also members, he hasheld the ofifice of superintendent for twentyyears, being class leader for thirty years, andtaking a very active part at all times in theaffairs of the society, being also the firstsuperintendent of the Sunday-school who hascontinued to conduct its sessions in the win-ter time. Mrs. Russell was also a Sunday-school teacher, and is a personal force in thew-orking organizations of the parish, whereher aid and encouragement are a constant ben-efit. Mr. and Mrs. Russell may well claimtheir early ancestry, feeling themselves bytheir Christian influence as doing honor tothose God-fearing men who sought in lifesgreat issues of sorrow and joy the blessing ofheaven. (g>rUGUSTUS MARKHAM, a well-known £|A Excise Commissioner of Lima, Liv- /j|^\ ingston County, was born in Avon ^^ in the same county, July 6, 1821, the year that Missouri was admitted into the. AUGUSTUS MARKHAM. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW >47 Iliion. His grandfather, Joseph Markham,was a Revolutionary soldier and a life-longresident of New Hampshire. His father,Joseph Markham second, was twenty years oldwhen he came with Colonel William Mark-ham on foot to Avon. They took up land;and Mr. Markham built first a log house, butlater frame buildings. The land was all un-cleared, and the travellers were obliged to fol-low Indian trails to their destination. Hiswife was Hepsibeth Peabody; and they rearedeleven children—Diana, Milantha, Willard,Spencer, Mindwell, Joseph, Betsy, Lorinda,Guy, Augustus, and Mehitable. The fatherand mother of this flourishing family lived tobe ninety-four and seventy-two years old re-spectively. The subject of this sketch received his edu-cation in the district school at Avon, andworked at the old homestead until the fall of1S58, when he came t
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