Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Van Benschoten, Elias December 20, 1848 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Van Benschoten, Elias, was born where he now resides in Warren, December 20,
1848, a son of Mathew and Julia Ann (Wykoft) Van Benschoten. The grandfather,
Elias, was a pioneer of Otsego county. Their children were: Melvina, Colman, 
Mrs. General Holt, Catharice Hicks, Mrs. Helen Gould, Cordela, Mathew and 
Elias. Mathew was born in Otsego county, where he had a farm of two hundred 
acres, and ran a hotel on the west side of Otsego Lake. About 1830 he located 
where his son now resides, where he died in 1859, aged fifty-nine. His wife 
died January 17, 1890, aged eighty-five. She was born January 8, 1805, in 
Cherry Valley, a daughter of Grant Wykoff, of New Jersey. They had twelve 
children, and raised two: Chester, of Michigan, and Elias. The latter had a 
district school education, and at fourteen began for himself on the home farm 
which he now owns. He is a Republican. In 1870 he married Martha J. Storing, 
born in Otsego county, N. Y., a daughter of Jacob and Elisabeth (Weldon)
Storing, and they have three children: Don E., Bruce P., and Lula. Subject's 
mother's parents raised nine children: John, William, Eliza Paine, Sally Fish, 
Julia A., Emily Springer, Elenor Eckler.

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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