Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Hosford, Frank D. October 13, 1852 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 February 6, 2009, 9:40 am Author: Hardin & Willard Hosford, William, Warren, and wife, Theresa (Jepson), came from North Adams, Mass., to Cedarville, Oneida county, where he followed the occupation of shoemaker. They had five children: Lorenzo, Matthew. William, Lot and Clarissa. He died in September, 1853, aged sixty-eight, and his wife July 4, 1861, aged seventy-five. Lorenzo Hosford was born in Bridgewater, Oneida county, May 22, 1812. He married Julia A., daughter of Henry and Christina Devendorf, who bore him four children: Seward, Alanson B., Israel and Frank. He died April 20, 1891, and his wife September 29, 1889. Frank D. Hosford was born at Cedarville October 13, 1852. He received an academic education, and at twenty-two left home and began clerking at Hemlock Lake, where he passed three years, then one year at Cedarville, where he began cheese-making at the latter place. He married March 18, 1885, Clara L., daughter of David and Mary (Schooley) Evans, of Litchfield, and located where he how lives and manufactures cheese. They have one child, Mary E. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/hosford846gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb