Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Kilts, Willard August 18, 1863 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Kilts, Willard, Fairfield, son of Peter and Caroline Kilts, was born August 
18, 1863, on the homestead farm in the town of Fairfield.  The Kilts family 
settled early in this town, William, great-grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, assisting in clearing up the farm now known as Kilts Hill, which his 
father purchased in 1788 at ten shillings per acre.  William served in the War 
of 1812.  His son, Conradt, who inherited the property, assisted in the 
construction of the old stone bridge on Ann street at Little Falls, which is 
now being replaced by an iron one.  Conradt and his son Peter, made additions 
to the property from time to time by the purchase of adjoining lands.  Conradt 
died about 1879 in his eighty-fourth year.  Peter died August 16, 1885, aged 
sixty-three, leaving his wife, Caroline, whose father was the late Abram 
Keller, three sons and two daughters surviving.  Of his sons, Herman, the 
eldest, was accidentally drowned in the Erie Canal near Little Falls in 1891; 
Seymour is a farmer at Cortland, N.Y.; Willard has always lived at home, with 
the exception of a few years while engaged in teaching school and keeping a 
grocery store in Utica. He married, February 10, 1892, Cora Bellinger.  His 
sisters are Marietta, wife of H.A. Crofoot of Norway,and Carrie, unmarried, 
living at home.


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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