. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. z^^cy?^ JOHN J. SHARP. John J. Sharp was born on Staten Island, Jan. 1, 1800. Little is known of the ancestry of the Sharp family beyond his father, William Sharp, who was a merchant on Staten Island for many years. He was married to Elizabeth Johnson, by whom he had thirteen children, five of whom are now living. The family moved to Arkport, this county, in the year 1812, and hence were among th
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. z^^cy?^ JOHN J. SHARP. John J. Sharp was born on Staten Island, Jan. 1, 1800. Little is known of the ancestry of the Sharp family beyond his father, William Sharp, who was a merchant on Staten Island for many years. He was married to Elizabeth Johnson, by whom he had thirteen children, five of whom are now living. The family moved to Arkport, this county, in the year 1812, and hence were among the early settlers of the town of Hor- nellsville. Subsequently the parents moved to Pennsyl- vania, where the father died at the age of eighty-four, in the year 1844. The mother died during the same year, at the age of seventy-eight. Mr. Sharp^s opportunities for an education from books during his minority were somewhat limited, as he came with his parents to their new home when only twelve years of age, and those of our early set- tlers who still survive remember well the rude log school-house and its meagre appointments. In the year 1824 he married Olive, daughter of William Hyde, Esq., of Arkport. She was born De( 21,1802. With- out pecuniary assistance this couple began life for them- selves. For eleven years they lived on what is known as the Wheeler farm, during which time, by industry and economy, they accumulated sufficient means, and in the year 1835 purchased the farm now owned and occupied by the surviving wife and children. Nearly all of this farm, consisting of one hundred and five acres, Mr. Sharp cleared of its original forest, where now may be seen cultivated fields and farm im- provements, showing the handiwork of a careful and representative farmer. His children were Edwin Reuben (deceased); Ann Eliza (deceased); Lucinda (deceased); John W., of California; and Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. D. H. Butler), of Elgin, 111. The mother died Aug. 17, 1838. For his second wife
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