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Maryette Edgerton, daughter of Hiram and Louisa (Pomeroy) Edgerton. PHOTO
Joseph Nelson Leonard, son of Isaac Richmond and
Lucy (
Children:
The
following biography of Joseph Nelson Leonard is extracted from Historical and Biographical History of the
Township of Dayton, Cattaraugus County, New York (Charles J. Shults, ed.;
April 1901; pg. 101): “Joseph N. Leonard was born in the town of Smithfield, Madison County, N. Y., July 27, 1820. He was one of several children of Isaac R. and Lucy (Manchester) Leonard. About 1830, the family came from the town of Augusta, in Oneida county, to the present town of Perrysburg. This portion of the state was then known as the Holland Purchasse and coming here meant going west. The family was poor and experienced all the privations incident to pinoeer life. In September, 1847, the subject of this sketch was married to Maryette Edgerton, a daughter of Hiram Edgerton, a native of Vermont, and himself one of the pioneers of the town of Dayton. The young couple, like many others of those days, started poor but with a strong determination to make their way in the world and to accumulate something for old age. It was no light task; it meant hard work and rigid economy, but both did well their part and reasonable success crowned their efforts. Politics never had any fascination for Mr. Leonard; he never attended a caucus or convention in his life and never sought or held public office. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard have one child, a son, Irving R. Leonard of Gowanda, N. Y. At the ages of nearly 81 and 71, respectively, they own and occupy, with other lands, the farm which Hiram Edgerton bought of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. in 1840, and which has not been out of the family since that time.” |
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