NATHAN T. WEST was born in Madison county, New York, in 1818, and was about eleven years old when his parents, John and Polly West, came to Tioga county. He remained on the home farm until nineteen years of age, when he purchased the farm now owned by his son, John E., then consisting of 103 acres of timberland. He cleared and improved this property, and made it his home until his fathers death, when he purchased the interest of the other heirs in the old homestead and located upon it. He married Aurilla Niles, a daughter of Erastus Niles, March 23, 1838. She was born in Tioga township, March 19, 1821, and is the mother of the following children: Adelbert, a farmer of Middlebury; John E., a resident of the same township; Nathan B., a stonemason at Keeneyville; Polly P., wife of Ira West, of Middlebury; Edward W., of Farmington; Alfred C., who lives in Middlebury township; Hobart P., a resident of Wellsboro; Aurilla A., wife of George Reynolds, of Chatham, and Richard A., who lives near Jamestown, New York. Mrs. West is a member of the Free Will Baptist church. Mr. West died October 6, 1896, aged seventy- nine years. In politics, he was a stanch Democrat, held all the township offices at different periods, and was one of the most substantial farmers in the county.
NATHAN T. WEST was born in Madison county, New York, in 1818, and was about eleven years old when his parents, John and Polly West, came to Tioga county. He remained on the home farm until nineteen years of age, when he purchased the farm now owned by his son, John E., then consisting of 103 acres of timberland. He cleared and improved this property, and made it his home until his fathers death, when he purchased the interest of the other heirs in the old homestead and located upon it. He married Aurilla Niles, a daughter of Erastus Niles, March 23, 1838. She was born in Tioga township, March 19, 1821, and is the mother of the following children: Adelbert, a farmer of Middlebury; John E., a resident of the same township; Nathan B., a stonemason at Keeneyville; Polly P., wife of Ira West, of Middlebury; Edward W., of Farmington; Alfred C., who lives in Middlebury township; Hobart P., a resident of Wellsboro; Aurilla A., wife of George Reynolds, of Chatham, and Richard A., who lives near Jamestown, New York. Mrs. West is a member of the Free Will Baptist church. Mr. West died October 6, 1896, aged seventy- nine years. In politics, he was a stanch Democrat, held all the township offices at different periods, and was one of the most substantial farmers in the county.
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