Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Brace, Henry L. January 4, 1827 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Brace, Henry L., Winfield, was born in Winfield January 4, 1827, a son of 
Asahel Brace, who was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1779.  He came with his 
father, Deacon Abel Brace, to what is now Winfield in 1793.  The latter 
married in 1799 Katy Curtis, by whom he had thirteen children.  Asahel was 
made captain of militia, and in the War of 1812 he went with his company to 
Sackett's Harbor.  Abel, grandfather of H. L. Brace, died in 1831 at the age 
of ninety-two.  H. L. Brace succeeded his father as proprietor of the 
homestead farm in 1847.  In 1848 he married Pamelia Holmes, and they have a 
son and daughter, Ellen H., who married Adelbert Leach, and has a son and 
daughter;  Seward A. and Lena A. Leach, and Seward H., who married Mary A. 
Vincent. They have one son, Howard M.  Abel Brace was deacon of the First 
Congregational church, and his son Charles was a deacon of the same church, as 
is also Henry L., who was appointed deacon June 16, 1858, of the church at 
East Winfield, and retained that office after the removal of the church to 
West Winfield.  The church was raised in West Winfield June 2 and 3, 1876.  
Henry L. Brace sang in the choir over fifty years, and has been a member of 
this church forty-four years.  Pamelia A. Brace has sung in the choir of this 
church since 1848.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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