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Source: HISTORY OF WYOMING CO., NY
BY: F. W. BEERS, 1880
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Nathaniel Parker Hedges was born in Sheldon, Wyoming Co., NY in 1815. His father, a native of Morristown, N.J., was born in 1775. At twenty he moved to Phelpstown, NY from there to Sheldon, NY in 1806. He moved his family back to Phelpstown, NY during the war of 1812-14, in which he served, but became a resident of Sheldon, NY again when peace was restored. In 1841 Nathaniel Parker Hedges married HARRIET FOSTER, who was born in Sugar Grove, PA, in 1826. He came to Bennington, Wyoming Co., NY, where he has been a resident for forty years, from Sheldon, NY. He has a fine education, obtained in the common schols, at an academy and in college, and possesses a wide range of general and practical knowledge. He is a surveyor by professiona, and has taught school one hundred and three terms in New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, and has been professor of penmanship in academics in those three states. Three gifted daughters, Violetta M, Virginia M. and Clara J, also teachers of rebute, have died of consumption.
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Denise Perkins Ready
(Transcriber)
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