Sheldon Hotchkiss    

SHELDON HOTCHKISS, farmer, P.O. Mosiertown, was born March 31, 1820, in Cussewago Township, this county. His father came to Cussewago Township, this county, from Connecticut in 1816, taking forty-two days with an ox-team. His son, Joel, married Mary Sperry. He followed the trade of carpenter and erected many of the buildings in this and adjoining townships. Our subject is the seventh of eleven children. In 1841 he married Clarissa, daughter of Thomas Haggerty, of this township. They settled and cleared a farm of fifty acres of wild land which they sold, then bought a part of the John Clawson homestead. Their children are Vincent A., of Erie County, Penn.; Mrs. Mahetable Freeman; Mrs. Welthy Jane Mosier; Mrs. Evaline McLeland; Mrs. Rosetta Crain; Mrs. Emma Steinhoof, and John W. Mrs. Hotchkiss died December 26, 1871. She was a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Hotchkiss has held most of the township offices, fulfilling his duties faithfully. 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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