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Stemper, Nicolas, Holland, p. o. Strykersville,
was born Wyoming county, N.Y. April 14, 1865, and is a son
of Frank Stemper, a native of Belgium, who emigrated to America in 1841 and
settled on a farm in the town of Sheldon, where he now resides. Nicholas
Stemper received his education in Sheldon, after which he assisted his father on
the farm until he became of age. September 26, 1894, he married Elizabeth
Marzolf, daughter of Xavier Marzolf, and they have one child, Isabelle. Mr.
Stemper owns a well improved farm of seventy-five acres in Holland, and is
engaged in dairying, raising grain and poultry. He is a prosperous young man and
very enterprising.
Source : (collective work) : Our county and its people : a descriptive work on
Erie County, New York; Boston, Mass: Boston History Co., 1899, 1624 pgs.
