Rathbone genealogy

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EA THBOSE GESE A LOU) .
daughter of Job and Debora (Welch) Rathbone. Aug. 2j,
1797; she was born Dec. 6, 1777. He died Nov. 17, 1S26,
from injuries received by a falling timber when raising a
beam to a building. He was married at his wife's father's
house in Colchester. Conn., and soon after removed to Warren,
Conn. After living there a few years he removed to
Otsego Co. and from there to Howard, Steuben Co., N. Y.,
1808. He and his brother Job B. were the first Rathbones
who settled in Steuben Co., N. Y. Children:
1. Elizabeth W., b. in Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y-, Aug. 27,
1804: m. Eben Bartholomew.
2. Anna Eliza, b. in Warren, Conn., 1S01; d. Aug., 1879.
ELIZABETH W. 9 RATHBONE (Joshua 8 , William 7 ,
William , William3 , William 4 , John 3 . John 2 , Richard 1
), born
Aug. 27, 1804: married Eben Bartholomew, Jan. 17. 1828.
He was born in Whitehall. Washington Co., X. Y.. March
30, 1805. He in 1889 still resided on the farm purchased by
his father when he first located in Steuben Co.. in 1819; she
died . 1886. Children:
1. Elizabeth, b- Aug. t, 1830; she graduated at Alfred institute
in 185 1 ; became a teacher in Hornellsville public schools in 1855. which
position she held in 1S86; she died in Elsinore. N. Y., Dec. 19, 1S91; was
buried at Howard, N. Y.
2. Annie Eliza, b. Feb. 1, 1834; d. Sept. 2, 1857.
JOBBEEBE8 RATHBONE (William 7 , William 6 ,
William 5 , William 4 . John 3 , John 2 , Richard 1
), born
in New London, Conn., May 15. 1784; married Frances,
daughter of Mason Brown of Howard, wither she had gone
to visit a sister Oct. 15. 1818. He died Feb. 12, 1856, at
Howard where he had lived since the first settlement of the
town; she died Aug. 2. 1880, at the same place. Job B. was
a man of indomitable will and perseverance, uniting those
qualities with industry and a faculty to save: he accumulated
a large property, which at his death, his children inherited.
While Washington and Hibbard W., sons of Job
and Debora W. Rathbone were prominent citizens in good
circumstances, Job B. accumulated more property and was
equally as influential. His wife Frances, was born in Colches-
ter, Conn., March 24, 1791. He is said to have been a lively
lad in his youth. It was said that his sending a challenge to
fight a duel was the cause of his emigrating to Steuben.