Source: 

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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1867/69/81 – Assessor for town of North Collins

 

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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.