Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....McChesney, Robert D. February 27, 1836 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

McChesney, Robert D., Russia, was born February 27, 1836, in Little Falls, and 
is a son of Robert, whose grandfather was a native of Connecticut, of Scotch 
descent.  He was killed in a powder-mill.  He had eight children.  Robert was 
born in Scotland.  His wife was Betsy swift, a native of Connecticut, by whom 
he had two sons.  By a previous marriage Mr. McChesney had fifteen children.  
He lived at Fall Hill several years, and he died in Paine's Hollow in 1839, 
and his wife in 1870.  Robert D. was reared on a farm until twenty-five years 
of age, when he learned the carpenter trade, which he has since followed.  His 
brother William is a minister in the Methodist Protestant church in Minnesota, 
where he has resided twenty-seven years.  In 1868 Robert D. McChesney married 
Esther Mykel, a native of Grant, and they have had three children.  Frank, 
aged twenty-two years, is a telegraph operator and resides in Pennsylvania;  
James c., aged nineteen years, works in Little Falls.  In 1888 Mr. McChesney 
married second, Lucy, a daughter of Daniel Garlock, of Cold Brook.  At the age 
of nine years he came with his mother to Grant, and has since resided here, 
being now the only resident of the village that was living in it when he came 
to it in 1845 to live with his mother.  Subject is a Democrat in politics and 
a deacon in the Free Will Baptist church.

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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