A. W. Holbrook Biography:  Rutland County, VT

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A. W. Holbrook Biography

A. W. HOLBROOK Was born in Rutland, Vermont, Janu­ary
3, 1804, and is a son of Abel Hol­brook, who settled in
Greenwich, New York, about 1814. He lived at home until
1826, and worked out until 1829, when he went to
Waterford, Erie county, and worked at farming one year.
In 1830 he went to Centreville and rented a farm, on
which he lived eight months. Then he went to Sparta
township, and worked for John Sybrant clearing land for
one year. From there he went to Guy’s Mills, and then
to Rome township, and bought one hundred acres of land
and built a cabin and commenced clearing. He married,
December 28, 1836, Miss Sophia E. Little, daughter of
Rufus Little, of Richmond township. From 1836 to 1842
he made several trips to Pittsburgh, which was about
the only way he had in those days of getting any money.
For over twenty years he had no neighbors within one
mile. He now has about two hundred acres of well
im­proved land. In 1856 he built a fine house, and is
now enjoying the elegant home and comforts he has
worked so long to get.

Directory of Crawford County, PA, 1879-1880, pages 309-
310

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