. 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. LORENZO N. RIDER. Xiorenzo N. Rider was born in the town of Howard, Oct. 8, 1817. His father, James Rider, was a native of Saratoga County, born in 1795, July 11. His grandfather, William Rider, was a na- tive of Rhode Island, born in 1767, and after his marriage settled in Saratoga County, where he reared a family of four sons and three daughters,—Mrs. Isaiah Tuttle, Mrs. Robert Smith, James, Mr
. 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. LORENZO N. RIDER. Xiorenzo N. Rider was born in the town of Howard, Oct. 8, 1817. His father, James Rider, was a native of Saratoga County, born in 1795, July 11. His grandfather, William Rider, was a na- tive of Rhode Island, born in 1767, and after his marriage settled in Saratoga County, where he reared a family of four sons and three daughters,—Mrs. Isaiah Tuttle, Mrs. Robert Smith, James, Mrs. Moses Ogden, William, Samuel, and Joseph; of whom Samuel and William are living. His father, in 1815, came to the far West, looking for a place to settle, traveling on foot. He had two lots of timbered land, of one hundred acres each, booked to him in the town of Howard; cut the first tree for the purpose of clearing in that section, put up a log house, and after chopping some four acres returned to Sara- toga County, and that winter married Sally, daughter of Dr. Stephen Potter, of Galway, Saratoga County. The following spring", with his wife and father's family, he came to their new home, moving their scanty effects with a yoke of oxen the entire distance. The grandfather and family settled on one of the lots, where he lived the remainder of his life, having cleared the most of his lot. He died in 1864, having lived to almost complete a century. His wife, Hannah Mosher, died some time after the settlement in Howard. His father, with nothing but his axe, yet with resolution and in- dustry, began in 1816 to carve out a competence. The choppings from year to year, the gradual Increase of cultivated fields, the frfimed house taking the place of the log cabin, fruit-growing trees in place of the forest, on the one hand, all brought about by the sturdy pioneer, with the assistance of his boys, who were expected to do their part at very young ages; the indoor work, the old
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