Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Waite, Eben Britton December 25, 1820 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Waite, Eben Britton. -- The subject of this sketch was born in the village of 
Little Falls, December 25, 1820, and is a son of Job and Rebecca Waite.  His 
education, which began at an early age, was completed in the village schools, 
where he was a diligent and proficient student.  Mr. Waite commenced his 
business career in 1836, acting as a clerk for Jacob W. Dygert, who kept a 
store on the canal, near the Aqueduct. He remained in this position one year, 
when he accepted a clerkship with John Beardslee in a grocery and provision 
store on Main street.  Holding this place three years, on Apirl 1, 1840, he 
eneted the canal warehouse of Page & Priest.  In the spring of 1845 he rented 
a canal warehouse and grocer store of Major Frederick Bellinger, of Mohawk, 
located at the Herkimer upper bridge.  The situation being undesirable, he 
returned to Little Falls in 1846 and took charge, as manager, of the canal 
warehous, and line of boats running between that place and New York city.  In 
1850 he left this situation, and traveled two years for health and 
recreations.  In 1852 he formed a co-partnership with William Page, to develop 
a water power on Seely Island and build a paper mill.  In 1854, selling his 
interest in this enterprise to Mr. Page and his son, he bought and developed 
three water lots on the north side of the Mohawk river at the lower falls.  
The development of these lots was a work of considerable magnitude.  A channel 
thirty-two feet wide and seventeen feet deep at the highest point was blasted 
through the solid rock, opening into the waters of the Mohawk.  It was 
controlled by a bulkhead, and, with a portion of the old Inland Lock and 
Navigation Company's canal, which was reconstructed, formed the mill canal.  
April 30, 1857 Mr. Waite formed a co-partnership with Seth M. and Alvin 
Richmond, under the firm name of E. B. Waite & Co., for the purpose of 
building and operating a paper-mill.  This business was successfully continued 
until March 13, 1889, when the property was sold to the Little Falls Paper 
Company.  Mr. Waite, since 1889, as lived a retired life at his residence, 320 
South Ann street, in the village of Little Falls.  He married, August 14, 
1867, Miss Helen Case, daughter of Morgan E. Case, of Fairfield.  They have 
two children, a son, Eben Britton, jr., born August 25, 1869, and a daughter, 
Cora, born February 16, 1872, both of whom reside at the family mansion.


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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