. 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. '^/TploajA^ /p same. He has held at diiferent times various town offices, among them those of supervisor, justice of the peace, and assessor. He served his county as superintendent of the poor at different times, beginning with his first appoint- ment, in 1835. He represented his district in the State Legislature in 1847. He was a commissioner of deeds many years, appointed postmaster in 1837, an
. 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. '^/TploajA^ /p same. He has held at diiferent times various town offices, among them those of supervisor, justice of the peace, and assessor. He served his county as superintendent of the poor at different times, beginning with his first appoint- ment, in 1835. He represented his district in the State Legislature in 1847. He was a commissioner of deeds many years, appointed postmaster in 1837, and now holds the ap- pointment of notary public. He was an interested and prominent member of the military organization of the State. He was corporal in 1810, and has held every office in the regular line of promotion from that position to the rank of major-general, to which office he was commissioned June 29, 1832, and the duties of which he faithfully dis- charged until he resigned, April 9, 1845. He was present as a commissioned officer at the execution of Robert Doug- lass, in Bath. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which society he has been elder and trustee many years. He now lives on the same farm where he first settled, at the age of eighty-six, surrounded by the fruits of his labor. His children are Eliza Ann, Sarah D., Frederick, Prancis, and F. J., the last of whom now lives with his father on the same farm. He has always taken an active interest in the agricul- tural aiFairs of his county and State, and has held places on important committees in the agricultural organizations of the county and State. 56 George Renchan came from Albany County at an early day, and settled on the north part of the J. H. Wheeler property, known as the Renchan farm. He built a log house on the flat west of the Prattsburgh road. Afterwards a house was built on the same road. At one time an Indian camp stood just north of Renchan's house, on the flat. Their relations with the In
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