Elihu Hotchkiss    

ELIHU HOTCHKISS, farmer, P.O. Mosiertown, was born in this township, March 31, 1824, and is a son of Joel and Mary (Sperry) Hotchkiss, of Connecticut, who came to this county by wagon in 1817, settling in this township, where they developed their farm and raised a family of ten children. Our subject was married April 22, 1845, to Julia, daughter of Jeremiah Colvin. She died August 4, 1863, leaving six children: Mark; Sophronia, died July 28, 1865; Louisa Bradish; Willis, died February 21, 1866; Rosetta Monckenhoupt; and Cassius G., died March 29, 1865. On March 2, 1865, Mr. Hotchkiss married Miss Rachel Stelle, a native of New Jersey, and the children by this marriage are Zeruah, Darwin A. and Otis A. Mr. Hotchkiss has been industrious and successful in life, and has a fine farm of 225 acres of well-improved land, part of which was the old family homestead. He takes a great deal of interest in the improvement of fine stock on his place. He has been a life-long Republican. Cussewago Township contains no more useful and influential citizen than our subject, Elihu Hotchkiss.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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