Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Cronkhite, James H. February 11, 1823 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Cronkhite, Cornelius, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came from 
Dutchess county, N.Y., in 1786, and purchased for one hundred pounds a tract 
of land from the Abraham Lansing patent.  He lived here improving his land and 
following agricultural pursuits until his death.  He was the father of six 
children, three sons and three daughters.  He was succeeded by his two sons, 
Henry C. Cronkhite and John C. Cronkhite, Henry C. Cronkhite, the father of 
James H. Cronkhite, receiving for his share 109 acres, to which he added 18 
acres.  Henry C. was drafted in the war of 1812 and served by sending a 
substitute in Sackett's Harbor.  James H. Cronkhite was born February 11, 
1823, and succeeded to 127 acres of land, to which he has added 75 acres of 
beautiful dairy land adjacent to the village of Minden.  He married Miss 
Margaret Moyer of this town and they have had three children, two of whom 
survive, one son and one daughter.  Mr. Cronkhite has served twenty-one years 
successively as justice of the peace.  At the present writing he has retired 
from active agricultural pursuits.

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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