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Isaac DeForeest


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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