The Newtown bee., 1901-09-06
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for q rowing life, he decided to learn a trade, and to carry out that purpose he made his way on foot to Sherman, where an'uncle, George Mallory, assist ed in apprenticing him to Abraham and Edward Briggs, blacksmiths of the town, until he should reach the age of twenty-One years. After completing his term of service he went to Monroe, in this county, and worked five years for Penfield Brothers, carriage build CTS, doing iron work necessary in the business. It was at this time that he the sale of wagons for the firm, which he continued many years. Later he returned to Sherman, and for four years conducted the shop in which he learned his trade. In 1884 sided till 1857, and. erected black smith shop thereon. He also engaged
 in farming, and enclosing his land
 with stone walls. In 1867 he purchased the Northrop farm, moving thereon.
 In 1884 he married Miss Mary Briggs, daughter of Abraham Briggs, his for
 mer employer. His death occurred June ', 1871, in his sixty-eighth year,
 and his wife, who was born October 5,
 1908, died September l, 1887, aged
 about seventy mine. They had three children: (D Almira, QD Daniel B.
 Jour subject), and (IID Charles A. (l)
 Almira was born August IT, 1886, in
 the town of Sherman, and received a
 good common school education, which
 was supplemented with study in the
 ners Boarding School, after which she
 taught school. In 1860 she married
 Dewitt c. Akin, a prominent farmer of near Patterson. N, Y,
 On the maternal side, our subject is
 a great-grandson of Edward and Ann Chase Briggs, who came from Dart
 mouth, Mass, about 178O, to Quaker
 Hill (then called ObIong), purchasing
 the farm now owned by his grandson, Homer Briggs. He had learned the
 blacksmith's trade, which he followed
 during the greater portion of his life. Abraham Briggs, the grandfather of
 our subject, was born February g, 178O,
 at Quaker Hill, where he obtained a
 of twenty-two he married Freelove Os-
 born, daughter of stephen and Sarah Bourne Osborn, and in 1903 he pur- chased the homestead where he re-
 sided till his death, adding from time
 to time to his surroundings. AS pros perity came to him he invested largely in real estate, and at one time he had about eight hundred acres of land, which he divied among his children be- fore his death, which occurred January 28, 1859, when he was aged seventy
 nine years. He also carried on black Smithing with his brother Edward, for
 many years. In disposition he was re.
 markedly cheerful, but in his later years he became quite deaf. He liked to tell stories, and was always fond of joke. One instance, in his bOyhOOd days,. he amused his grandchildren by repeating when he heard of certain acts of miSchievOuS boys, which came near resulting fatally: "During holi.
 day, he with other boys chanced to
 pass an unoccupied dwelling, so think.
 ing it rare sport;s they proceeded to fill
 the adjoining we'll with stones. Not
 many years after, he purchased the same property, and went to reside stones which he had helped to throw into the well had to be removed at his expense. He had Jesse Sherman in the we'll filling large bucket, but on drawing it out the bail broke, so neal the top of the well, however, that they
 saved it from going on the old mans head, thereby averting catastrophe for the bucketful of stones would un- doubtedly have crushed him. When speaking of the incident in after years Jesse said he never dared tell his wife Hannah how near he came to being crushed through the work of thought
 less boys" Abraham Briggs was a birthright Quaker, and his faith was the rule of his daily life. Political. ly his support was given to the demo. cratic party.
 The Hungerford family, of which MT Mallory's first wife was member, has been represented in the town of Sher- man for many years. Levi Hunger ford, Mrs Ophelia Mallory's grand. father, was a native of Sherman, and he and his wife Diana fHungerford)
 reared family of six children, as fol lows: Thomas, father of Mrs Mallory; Edwin, who married Susan Giddings;
 Orin, who married Wealthy White; Hannah, wife of DelazOn Hungerford; Harriet wife of George Shove; and
 Emily, wife of Carlisle Smith. Thomas Hungerford was born and reared in
 the town of Sherman, and was always interested in farming there, but his
 chef occupation was carpentering. In
 politics he was republican, and at
 times he held minor town offices. He
 married Rachel, daughter of Nathan iel Smith and Betsey Mead, and had seven children; Sophia, who married Edward Treadwell; Ophelia, Mrs Nal lory); Mills, resident of the town of Sherman; Jay, who married Sarah