Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Rankins, Richard M. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Rankins, Richard M., Little Falls, is one of the most substantial farmers in 
Little Falls, and was born on one of the farms he now owns.  He is a son of 
the late Josiah Rankins, and has always followed agriculture, owning 205 acres 
of land and fifty cows.  His ancestors were here long before the Revolution, 
in which war his great-great-grandfather, Hugh, a native of Scotland, was a 
soldier.  His great-grandfather, a son of Hugh, was a fifer in the Revolution, 
and both were in the battle of Lake Champlain.  His grandfather, Melchert 
Rankins, son of Thomas Rankins, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was 
stationed at Ogdensburgh and Sackett's Harbor.  Mr. Rankins is a Republican, 
and a leading man in town affairs, is present master of the Grange at Little 
Falls, and is a Knight Templar in the Masonic fraternity.  In 1861 he married 
Elizabeth Lotridge, daughter of George H. Lotridge, and they have two sons, 
George H., a fireman on the N.Y.C.R.R., and Josiah, a book-keeper in the 
Saxony Mills.

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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