Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Suits, Hiram November 14, 1830 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Suits, Hiram, was born in Minden, Montgomery county, November 14, 1830, son of
Thomas and Laura E. (Hurlbert) Suits. His grandfather. Henry, was born near 
Stone Arabia. His father was a pioneer of Palatine, Montgomery county. Henry 
Suits came to Minden about 1828 or 1830, where he died at an advanced age. He 
served in the war of 1812. Subject and wife had these children: John, Thomas, 
David, James, Henry, Betsey, Margaret, Jane and Ann Subject's father located 
in Minden about 1825, where he resided until 1841, when he located in 
Starkville as a blacksmith, later at Cramers Corners. In the fall of 1856 he 
moved to Boone county, Illinois, where he died in 1871. His wife died in 
Lincoln county, Nebraska. He raised six children: Sara Flint, widow, living in 
Nebraska; Helen Miller, a widow living in Illinois; Hiram, Mary Peck, of 
Illinois; Henry, of Texas, who served in the secret service during the war, 
and went from Missouri under General Millroy. John died in Boone county,
Illinois, about 1873. Hiram received a district school education, and at 
twenty began for himself at the carpenter's trade, which he followed ten 
years, when he leased the farm where he lives of sixty-three acres, which he 
now owns. He has another farm of 126 acres. He served as justice and is an 
active Republican. He married July 4, 1854, Margaret, daughter of James D. and 
Margaret (Cramer) Weldon, by whom he has one child, James, born April 25, 
1860, in Stark, who married November 5, 1884, Libbie M., daughter of Hiram and 
Marinda (Bronner) Ward. They have one child, Clark.

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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