Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Van Valkenburg, C. A.  July 8, 1836 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Van Valkenburg, C.A., Manheim, was born in Manheim July 8, 1836.  He was 
married to Alida M. Schuyler June 17, 1868.  His father, Vrial, was born in 
August, 1795.  His mother was Catherine Driesbach, a sister of the celebrated 
lion tamer.  Mr. Van Valkenburg has lived on the farm he now owns for forty-
nine years.  His father settled here in the spring of 1837.  Mr. Van 
Valkenburg moved from the farm October 20, 1886, to where he now lives, No. 
540 East Monroe street.  Mr. Van Valkenburg received most of his education in 
the district schools, except one year in the Little Falls Academy and one term 
at Fort Plain Seminary.  Mr. Van Valkenburg tookt he management of his farm at 
the age of twenty, making butter and cheese.  Two years later he started a 
market garden on a very small scale in connection with cheese-making, and 
gradually increased the garden business for twenty-five years, then growing 
fifteen acres of vegetables, which he has run since, making thirty-four years 
in all.  In 1886 he started a milk route, which he has run since in connection 
with gardening.

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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