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Briggs, Erasmus History
of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord,
Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York |
Nicholas Beaver
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Page 729 1867/69/81
– Assessor for town of North Collins Page
749/750 Mr. Beaver was born March 3, 1824, in
France, twenty-four miles from the city of Strasburg. When six years old he removed
with his parents to Eden, Erie county N. Y. When twenty-three years of age he
located on the Genesee Road, in the west part of Concord, where he lived
until 1864, when he disposed of his farm and moved to his present farm in
North Collins. He has been twice married, first in 1844, second in 1868. He
has eleven children; eight by his first wife and three by his second wife. Mr. Beaver’s paternal grandfather was a
soldier of Napoleon and was with him through his campaigns, from the burning
of Moscow, to his final defeat at Waterloo. He died at the age of one hundred years. |
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