Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Odit, Augustus March 29, 1846 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Odit, Augustus, Russia, was born in Switzerland, March 29, 1846, a son of 
Augustus, who was a son of Franklin Odit, a native of Switzerland, who had two 
sons and four daughters. He died in Switzerland. Augustus Odit was born in 
Switzerland in 1812. He married Josephine, a daughter of Nicholas and Mary I. 
Floray, of Switzerland, and they had two sons and three daughters.  In 1854 
Mr. Floray and wife and Mr. Odit and family came to America. Mr. Floray died 
in 1871 and his wife in 1889. Augustus Odit was eight years old when he came 
with his parents to the United States. He has alwavs followed lumbering. In 
1877 he married Nellie B. Bullock, a native of Norway, born 1854, and a 
daughter of Ira Bullock, born in 1813, who had seven children. During the last 
six years Mr. Odit has been engaged in the general mercantile business at 
Northwood, N. Y. He is a Democrat and has been postmaster for the last six 
years.

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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