Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....House, Squire 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

House, Squire, Little Falls, was born in this county and received a common 
school education in the Jordanville district school. In 1861 he enlisted in 
the Thirty-fourth New York Yolunteers and served two years in the Rebellion, 
participating in many of the leading battles and engagements which occurred 
during this period. He was engaged for two years after the war in cutting 
marble, and in 1865 he established a general merchandise store upon the canal. 
Mr. House gives employment to from ten to twenty hands cutting wood. He has 
cleared over three hundred acres of wood in this vicinity. He is of Mohawk 
Dutch descent and of Revolutionary antecedents. His wife was Cornelia Orendorf 
of Fort Herkimer, by whom he had two children, a son and a daughter.  His wife 
died October 28, 1892.

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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