. 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. tentLy CHARLES HARTSHORN was born in Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y., Dec. 6, 1815. His father, Jacob Hartshorn, was a native of Litchfield, Conn., born Oct. 27, 1777, and removed to Madison County while a young man, about 1803, in which year, August 28, he married Jeru- sha Ransom, a native of Colchester, Conn., who was born July 15, 1779. He resided on the farm, where he was one of the pioneer sett
. 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. tentLy CHARLES HARTSHORN was born in Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y., Dec. 6, 1815. His father, Jacob Hartshorn, was a native of Litchfield, Conn., born Oct. 27, 1777, and removed to Madison County while a young man, about 1803, in which year, August 28, he married Jeru- sha Ransom, a native of Colchester, Conn., who was born July 15, 1779. He resided on the farm, where he was one of the pioneer settlers of the town, until his death in 1850. His main occu- pation was farming, although, through his interest in the great political questions of his time, he was prominently identified in politics, and gained considerable distinction as an advocate in justices' courts under the name of " ; His children were Philander (deceased), Mary (Mrs. David Madale, deceased), Jane (Mrs. Orson Sheldon, of Hornellsville), Dr. John R. (deceased), Charles, Minerva (Mrs. Bigelow Packer, deceased), Adelia (Mrs. Luke Gr. Maxson, Hornells- ville), and Ira D. (of Friendship, Allegany Co., N. Y.). The mother of these children died in 1855. Mr. Charles Hartshorn spent his minority on the farm of his father, and received the advantages only of the common schools of his day for obtaining education from books, but his subse- quent history has fully developed his early business ability and sagacity. His time from thirteen to fifteen years he spent with his eldest brother, who was then a merchant at Hornellsville, and at the age of twenty-three he came to the then small village of about seventy houses and three hundred and fffty inhabitant^ to take up his residence, and purchased a one-third interest in his brother's farm of two hundred and forty-four acres (including a portion of the present site of Hornellsville), a grist-mill, and saw-mill. After two years he became the sole owner
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