Hiram Hotchkiss    

HIRAM HOTCHKISS, farmer, P.O. Mosiertown, was born May 5, 1828, in Cussewago Township, this county. His father, Luther Hotchkiss, son of Joel and Mary Hotchkiss, settled in this township in 1818. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Isaac Davis, one of the pioneer Baptist preachers, January 3, 1826. She was born April 23, 1805, and her parents came to this county, from New Jersey, in 1795, and here settled. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hotchkiss developed a farm of 120 acres in western Cussewago Township. Their children are Hiram, Mrs. Nancy Erwin (deceased), Gilbert, James, Mrs. Martha Herrick, Mrs. Adeline Morgan, Mrs. Amelia Herrick and Mrs. Mary Hills (deceased). Mr. Hotchkiss died March 28, 1848; she still lives, aged eighty, and her portrait appears in this volume under the name of Elizabeth Hotchkiss, by her own request. In 1861 she married Lewis Thayer, of Conneaut, Ohio, who died in 1873. Our subject married Amrilla, daughter of Lewis Peet, September 3, 1848. She was born October 2, 1829, in Allegany County, N.Y. Their children were: Martin Luther, Norton J., Charley D. (deceased), Belvia E. and Lydia E. Mr. Hotchkiss owns 428 acres of land, including the old homestead, and is raising Durham cattle on his farm. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. In politics he is a Republican.

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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