Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Post, Henry 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Post, Dan, Newport, was born in 1771 and came to Newport with his brother 
Nathaniel when a young man.  Dan worked at farming. He married Mercy -----, 
and their children were:  John, Dan, jr., Spencer, Watson, Willoughby, 
Nathaniel, Roxy A. Benchley and Julia A. Hale.  Dan Post, jr., married Ann 
Stephens in 1824.  She is a daughter of Benjamin Stephens of Fairfield.  They 
had two children, Henry and Dan 3d.  He married second, Delcena Kniffin, a 
native of Newport, and a daughter of Obediah Kniffin.  They also had two 
children, Charles R. and Obediah K.  After his second marriage Mr. Post moved 
to Ohio, where he remained until his death.  Henry Post's father died when he 
was thirteen years of age, and he lived with his uncle, John Post, in the town 
of Russia until 1844.  He then taught school in Illinois for four years, when 
he returned to Middleville, and has since followed farming and carpentering.  
While building a barn on his farm he discovered some quartz crystals, which he 
mines.  He has one child living, Annie, wife of George W. Nellis, jr., editor 
of the Wide Awake Herkimer Count Record of Herkimer.  He is a Democrat in 
politics, a member of the Universalist church and superintendent of the Sunday-
school.


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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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