Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Welden, Moses May 9, 1822 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Welden, Thomas, Stark, was born in Ireland and was a pioneer of Stark. James 
D., son of Thomas, was born in Stark November 15, 1796, and lived in Stark all 
his life, he was in the war of 1812, going as a substitute for David Elwood, 
of Stark. He married Margaret, daughter of John and Christina Cramer, 
(subject's mother died April 25, 1860, aged seventy), and reared three 
children, Moses, Maria and Peggy. He died February 19, 1878. Moses Welden, the 
oldest, was born May 9, 1822, in Stark, where he has resided since, except one 
year. He furnished a substitute in the late war in the person of Ephraim 
Birch. He taught school in District No. 4 of the town of Stark six
consecutive winter terms at eleven and twelve dollars per month of twenty-two 
days and boarded himself. His average daily attendance was from thirty-three 
to thirty-eight scholars. December 29. 1853, he married Caty, daughter of 
Abram and Christina (Cramer) Roof. They have four children: Fayette, the 
eldest, a farmer in the town of Lysander, Onondaga county; Charles, a justice 
of Stark; Frances, wife of Herman Bauder, of Stark. They have two children, 
Dora and Oscar Bauder; and Christina, wife of John L. Cramer, of Lysander, 
Onondaga county, and they have two children, Welden and Arthur Cramer. The 
subjects of this sketch have 240 acres of land in the home farm in Stark, 200 
acres lying on Oak Flat, in Stark, 145 acres lying in Danube, eighty-five 
acres in Minden, Montgomery county, a house and lot at Brookruan's Corners, in 
the latter county, 180 acres in Garoga, Fulton county, forty acres in Constan-
tia, Oswego county, and 158 acres in Lysander, Onondaga county. They also have
two lots in Utica, Oneida county.

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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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