. 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. BEjSiJAMi^ MYETLE was born Dec. 29,1814. Married Arabella Smith, Nov. 16, 1838. Born and lived in Wheeler until Oct. 6, 1857, when he moved to Hammondsport, where he now lives. His children were Arabella, now wife of Dr. C. S. Stoddard, of La Crosse, Wis.; Van Buren, now of Wellsboro', Pa.; and Maggie, wife of O. H. Young- love, of Pleasant Valley. He is one of fifteen children of Philip Myrtle,
. 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. BEjSiJAMi^ MYETLE was born Dec. 29,1814. Married Arabella Smith, Nov. 16, 1838. Born and lived in Wheeler until Oct. 6, 1857, when he moved to Hammondsport, where he now lives. His children were Arabella, now wife of Dr. C. S. Stoddard, of La Crosse, Wis.; Van Buren, now of Wellsboro', Pa.; and Maggie, wife of O. H. Young- love, of Pleasant Valley. He is one of fifteen children of Philip Myrtle, who was born in Bucks Cq., Pa., in 1773. Married Rebecca Walters in 1795. The two years succeeding he lived on a small island in the Susquehanna River, named " Hill Island.^^ In 1797 he moved with his family to Bath, Steuben Co., N, Y. This proved a tedious and laborious task, and re- quired six weeks to reach Painted Post. He moved up the river in a canoe, and at night hauled the craft and turned it bottom up to shelter the family. At Painted Post he left the family and proceeded to Bath on foot, with his axe and gun. On his way he had the good fortune to kill a large black bear. A por- tion of the meat he sent back to his family by the mail carrier, and sold the skin for five dollars. This proved a godsend, as his funds \yere entirely exhausted. At Bath he engaged with John Wilson, sheriff of this county, to manage a distillery, which he did for three years. After a few days he returned to the Post for his family, and took them to Bath, where he remained until he purchased forty acres of land in the town of Wheeler, where he built a log house to which he moved his family in 1800, and lived fifty years, until his death. This forty acres he purchased at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and for which he paid with seven years' continuous hard labor. This was the nucleus about which clustered the old Myrtle homestead of six hun- dred acres, mostly cleared, and much of it
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