Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Ellsworth, Sylvester November 17, 1822 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Ellsworth, Sylvester, Stark, was born near Penn Yan, where his father was a 
pioneer, and came to Stark, where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob 
Hawick, of Ohio, about 1820, and settled at Richmond, Ohio, where he ran a 
hotel and grocery business.  Owing to failing health he came back to Stark, 
leaving his family, and he went out to Saratoga, where he died in 1826, 
leaving a widow and five children:  Edith, Mulberry, Judiah, Sylvester H. and 
Nelson. Edith and Sylvester H. survive.  His wife died here in 1864, aged 
sixty-seven.  Sylvester Ellsworth was born in the State of Ohio, November 17, 
1822, and came to Stark, with his mother, at the age of fourteen.  He began 
working by the month on a farm at twenty-two with his mother.  He bought sixty 
acres of land in town and began farming, adding to this 160 acres adjoining. 
He still owns 100 acres here.  In 1864 he bought and located on 200 acres one 
mile east of Starkville, where he now resides, owning one-third of a farm of 
100 acres.  He served as supervisor five terms on the Democratic ticket, is a 
leading Mason, and a member of the Utica Commandery, Mystic Shrine.  Mr. 
Ellsworth married February 1, 1848, Betsey M., daughter of Warner and Margaret 
(Guyts) Nellis. They have five children:  Ellen, wife of Anthony Roof; Clark, 
Charles, Frank and Martha, wife of Charles Ward. Charles and Frank are in San 
Francisco.

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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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