ISAAC
DEFORREST, farmer, post-office Sharon, Penn., is a son of
Abraham
and Margaret (Vandenberg) DeForrest. The father of our subject came to
Mercer County in 1820, and settled where our subject now lives. He was
a native of Hunterdon County, N. J., and an officer in the
Revolutionary War. His death occurred at the ripe old age of
ninety-eight years and nine months. His family consisted of nine
children, viz.: Jennie (married G.
Karhuff of New
Jersey), Hannah (married William Hall, of Ohio),
Catherine
(married Mr. Koon, of New Jersey), Elizabeth
(married
Robert Stout, of New Jersey), Sarah (married
Charles
Campbell, of Mercer), Jane (married Philip Homer, of
Sharon), Gershom, Mary (Mrs. Peter Warren, of New Jersey),
and
our subject, who was born August 7, 1797, in Hunterdon County, N. J. He
was reared and received his education in New Jersey, and removed to
Mercer County with his parents. He has always lived on the old
homestead and followed farming for an occupation. He was married in
1822 to Miss Nancy, daughter of Samuel Quinby, and
by this
union they reared seven children: Eliza J. (wife of
Charles
Brewster, of Fort Madison, Iowa), Theodore (who died in
1887),
Julia (wife of William Buchanan, of Beaver County,
Penn.),
Josephine (who died at the age of twenty-six), Adoniram
(deceased), Nannie (wife of Joseph Riggs, of Sharon),
and
Teresa (wife of M. H. Staunton). Mrs. DeForrest died in 1885.
Our
subject is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Sharon, and one
of the oldest citizens of the valley.
Source: History of
Mercer County, 1888, pgs. 863 - 864 |
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