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Descendants of Matthew WEST

Generation No. 7

7. SOLOMON⁷ WEST (ELISHA⁶, HEZEKIAH⁵, BENJAMIN⁴, WILLIAM³, FRANCIS², MATTHEW¹) was born June 07, 1821 in Burlington, (Hartford County) CT, and died October 18, 1892 in Augusta, Ill.. He married HARRIET TIFFANY BICKNELL July 11, 1843 in Boston, Mass. (or perhaps Utica, N.Y.), daughter of BAXCTER BICKNELL , ESQ..

Notes for SOLOMON WEST:
From: Early Settlers of Schyler County--1872

Soloman West was born in Burlington, Hartford County, Connecticut, April 7, 1821. His grandfather, Hezekiah West was bortn in Conn. previous to the revolution. He was a deacon of the Baptist Church. His vocation was that of a farmer. He was very suddenly killed by the falling of a tree.

Elisha West, the father of Soloman, was born in Hartford County, July 6, 1782. He receiaved his early education in the schools of Coinnecticut. Was married, October1, 1803, to Miss Eleanor, daughter of the Rev. A. Stillman. She was born March 13, 1784. His vocation was principally farming, though considerable of his time was spent in selling clocks. He traveled in most every state and territory then in the union. He and his wife faised a family of six children, all of whom are married and have families. Soloman is the youngest child. Mr. West died in Cincinnati, Ohio in the fall of 1829. His wife survived him about ten years.

Soloman received his early education in the common schools of the state of Connecticut. In the spring of 1837 he went to Utica, N. Y., and was clerk in a store there for about three years. There he became acquainted with Miss Harriet Tiffany Bicknell, daughter of Baxter Bicknell, ESQ., and three years after he married her. She was born January 20, 1821. In 1840 he moved to Wayne County, Penn., where he engaged in the manufacture of umbrella and parasol handles. In 1857 he came to Camden, Schuyler County, Illinois, where he now resides, carrying on a saw mill and farm.

Mr. West's ancestors reach back to original Puritan stock, six generations., His first relative that came form Europe was a sea captain, and from him sprang the West family in America. He had three sons; one settled in Massachusetts, one in Rhode Island, and one in New Jersey.

Mr. West has a family of four children; two sons are married, a son and daughter yet single. He and family are at present residing in the village of Camden, hale and hearty. Politically, he is a staunch supporter of the principles of the Republican Party.

Children of SOLOMON WEST and HARRIET BICKNELL are:

EDWIN B.⁸ WEST, b. October 30, 1844.

ii.

BOSTWICK HAWLEY (HAWLEY B.) WEST, b. November 04, 1846, Mt. Pleasant, Pa; d. April 05, 1938, Spokane, Wa.

iii.

ELLEN M. WEST, b. Abt. 1852; d. June 20, 1879.

iv.

ORSMUS STILLMAN WEST, b. February 13, 1854, Wayne Co., Penn.; d. June 12, 1933, Lincoln, Ill.; m. ELIZABETH CADY.

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