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- Norman Hibbard ALLEN was born Aug. 22, 1811, near what is known as Zoar. He was the second child of Ahaz and Sibyl (HIBBARD) ALLEN. At the age of eighteen he commenced teaching school in Cattaraugus and Erie counties, which he continued winters until 1835; the last school he taught in this vicinity was in the town of Perrysburg in the winter of 1834-35 and numbered eighty pupils. In June, 1835, he removed to Michigan, where he became a carpenter and joiner, which business he continued until the spring of 1836, when he was called back to this town by the sickness and death of his sister Caroline. In May, 1837, he returned again to Michigan, where he remained until about the close of 1839, when he settled on a farm in Persia on lot 56, and has continued farming to the present time, now living on lot 8, town 6, range 8. Nov. 29, 1846, he married Roanna, daughter of J. C. and Catharine R. BABCOCK, of this town, who died March 2, 1863. Children: Millard N.; Norman B.; and Harmony R., born July 29, 1856, married Edward M. BARTLETT, a farmer of Fredonia, Chautauqua county. Norman H. ALLEN was a Whig in politics until the formation of the Republican party, with which he has since been identified. His second marriage (Oct. 25, 1864) was with Phebe, daughter of Lilly and Elizabeth (RUSSELL) STAFFORD, a native of Collins, Erie county, who was born Oct. 5, 1820; her parents were from Dartmouth, Mass. They occupy the same farm and house purchased by Mr. ALLEN in 1850.
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1811 - 1897 (85 years)
