Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Goes, Martin February 20, 1833 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Goes, Martin, Warren, was born in Root, Montgomery County, February 20, 1833, 
and is a son of David and Lydia (Hale) Goes.  His grandfather, Derrick, came 
from Holland and settled at Kinderhook.  The subject's father was born at 
Kinderhook, February 22, 1798, and after his marriage came to Root and in 1833 
to Springfield, where he bought forty acres on which he lived until his death, 
January 22, 1858.  His wife died in Schoharie, aged seventy-six.  They had 
five children:  Elizabeth, Rebecca, Augusta, Martin and Lydia.  Martin Goes 
taught school seven years, and in 1858 bought 100 acres in Richfield.  In 1864 
he located where he now lives on 230, and is now the owner of 330 acres of 
land, devoted to hops and dairying.  He is one of the founders and a director 
of the First National Bank of Richfield Springs, and was one of the original 
movers and a trustee of Richfield Springs Seminary.  He is a Mason.  He has 
been twice married:  First, February 4, 1858, to Martha, daughter of Alonzo 
and Catherine (Springer) Bigelow, and had one son, Springer.  Mrs. Goes died 
June 30, 1870, and he married Cornelia, daughter of James and Adeline (Bowker) 
Ferguson, who has borne him one child, Howard.  They are both Presbyterians.


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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