Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Seckner, Francis A. March 4, 1848 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Seckner, Francis A., Winfield, has a hop, dairy, fruit and grain farm of about 
240 acres; also a store in Chepachet, where he has been postmaster for about 
ten years.  He was born in Columbia, March 4, 1848, a son of Jacob Seckner, 
jr., a native of Herkimer county, and he is a son of Jacob Seckner, born in 
Jacksonburg, September 13, 1789, died February 2, 1878, who was one of the 
earliest settlers of the town of Columbia.  His wife was Elizabeth Crouch, 
born in Herkimer, July 7, 1792, died January 16, 1869.  The father of Jacob, 
sr., was Conrad Seckner, of Germany. The great aunt of Jacob Seckner, jr., 
whose name was Harter, was scalped by the Indians during the Revolutionary War 
and left for dead, but she recovered and lived many years after to related her 
terrible experience.  Chauncey, brother of Jacob, jr., has in his possession a 
spade used in Revolutionary days in building the fort at Herkimer. Jacob, jr., 
was born March 29, 1814, and died December 21, 1876.  He married March 29, 
1837, Mandana, daughter of Phineas Whitney, of German Flats, who died 
September 2, 1847, and his wife, Deborah Palmer, died March 24, 1858.  Jacob 
Seckner, jr., had seven children:  Irvin W., died June 8, 1859; Fanny, who 
married Newbern R. Myers; Almina, who married James S. Ginby; Alfred E., who 
married Laura Shaul, and Francis Seckner, who married Helen F. Tyson, November 
7, 1870, and they have four children:  Fanny L., Leon E., Helen F. and Bessie 
M., all living at home with their parents.  Francis Seckner settled on the 
farm where he now lives in 1871.  It is partly in Winfield and partly in 
Richfield, Otsego county.

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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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