Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Stillman, Nathaniel P. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Stillman, Ezra, Newport, was born in Rhode Island about 1790 and died, aged 
seventy-three years.  He was a son of Benjamin Stillman and married Polly 
Newberry.  He settled in the town of Newport in 1811 and was the father of 
eight children, Nathaniel P., Samuel N., Mary Ann, Erastus B., George, Jane, 
Nancy and Jackson.  At the age of twenty-three Nathaniel P. started at 
farming, where he now lives.  He married Lydia Wilson in 1836.  She was a 
native of Newport and a daughter of John and Sallie Wilson.  She died in 1887, 
aged sixty-nine years.  They have seven children, as follows:  Emily, Adaline, 
Louise, Minerva, Lydia, Flora and Ezra.  Emily married Gilbert Higgins in 
1857, and lives on a small farm near Newport.  They ahve one daughter, Minnie, 
who married John Sherman, a farmer, who also lives near Newport.  Louisa 
married William Harris in 1860.  The latter enlisted as a private in Company 
D., First Berdan's Sharpshooters, in 1861, and died August 11, 1863, at 
Sulphur Springs, in Virginia.  They had two children, one of whom now 
survives, Mrs. Carrie Spellman, of Cold Brook.  Louisa Harris died August 4, 
1875, aged thirty-two years.  Minerva married George Wilcox July 4, 1864, and 
died in 1867, aged twenty-two years.  Lydia was born in 1850 and died in 1870, 
aged twenty years.  Flora married John Payne in 1877 and resides in Utica.  
They have one daughter, Bertha A.  Ezra Stillman, jr., married Allie Truman, 
and follows farming, rasing fancy cattle, etc.  They have had three children, 
Bessie, Ward and Lydia, of whom only one, Lydia, survives.

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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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