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Madison County Residents Who Removed to Oswego County
The Town of Richland The Town of Oswego In 1838 Abel Wilder came from Madison county and purchased of Ansel Frost 437 acres on lots 32 and 32. To 100 acres of this his son Eli succeeded. On Eight-Mile Creek on this farm William Lewis, at a very early date, erected a saw mill, which was rebuilt by Eli Wilder in 1838. Abel Wilder died in 1852, aged sixty-seven. Eli, the eldest of three sons and two daughters, was born December 18, 1816. (p. 643) The Town of Palermo The Town of Volney and Village of Fulton Timothy Pratt, son of Caleb, a Revolutionary soldier, was born in Vermont in 1790, and came from Madison county to Fulton in 1833. He engaged in the manufacture of linseed oil and also largely of lumber. He built a grist mill and carried on a large milling business, and also conducted an extensive transportation business. He was long interested in the Citizens' National Bank of Fulton and a liberal donor to Falley Seminary. He was the father of John W. Pratt. He died October 19, 1879. (p. 791) Family Sketches Hiram D. Fox, proprietor of the Windsor Hotel and the Windsor Opera House of Phoenix, was born in Onondaga county in 1843, son of John and Esther Cole Fox, natives of Madison and Saratoga counties. When thirteen years old he moved to Schroeppel with his parents and when twenty-three removed to Phoenix. He followed boating eleven years, owning and running a canal boat from Syracuse and purchased the Windsor House in 1886. He has filled the office of justice of the peace, supervisor and assessor. His first wife, Mary Eno, died in 1822, leaving two children John and Hortense. He afterward married Carrie Payne and has one child. (p. 243). Oliver B. Maury is a native of Oswego county, born in 1848, and in 1872 married Ella A Calkins. In 1864 he enlisted in the 184th Regiment, Co. G and is now serving his third term as inspector of elections. His father, Ephraim D., was born in Oswego county in 1827, and was a descendant of one of the brothers who came from Wales and settled in Rhode Island. His first wife, the mother of Oliver B., was Helen Peckham, a native of Madison county, who died in 1885, leaving six children. (p. 233)Source: Churchill, John C. Landmarks of Oswego County, New York. Syracuse, N. Y.: D. Mason & Company, Publishers, 1895.
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