Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Rees, M. A. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 February 21, 2009, 10:00 am Author: Hardin & Willard Rees, M. A., is a native of Fairfield and was born on the farm on which he resides. He was educated at Fairfield in the early days of the academy. He owns a fine farm of 200 acres and a herd of forty cows. Mr. Rees's great- grandfather came from Germany. He was a clergyman and physician and settled in Palatine and officiated in New Jersey for many years. Some of the grandfather's brothers took part in the war of 1812. Mr. Rees married Miss Sarah Johnson of Salisbury in 1858. Their only son, C. H., died in 1890. Mr. Rees is a Mason and a member of the Grange and other societies. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/rees965gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb