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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... New Oregon. This is a small hamlet containing ten or twelve houses, and is located on Eighteen Mile creek in the northeast part of the town. Augustus Schmidt carries on a store and his brother, Frederick Schmidt, keeps a hotel in the same building. Germain Schneider is also a dealer in general merchandise and a hotel keeper. The majority of the residents of the vicinity are German farmers. A Roman Catholic church-edifice was built here in i860. The congregation is under the charge of the Rev. Father Schlee, of Langford. CHAPTER LXII. PERSDNSL SKETCHES. Orlando Allen -- Solomon George Haven --Dr. Ebenezer Johnson --Henry F. Penfield -- Elbridge Gerry Spaulding -- Samuel Wilkeson -- Millard Fillmore-- Ebenezer Walden -- William Hodge--William A. Bird--Lewis F. Allen. ORLANDO ALLEN was born in New Hartford, Oneida county, N. Y., on the 10th of February, 1803. His ancestors, like most of the early settlers of Central and Western New York, were New England people. His grandparents, Gideon Allen and Lettuce Curtess, came to Oneida county from Adams, Vt., in the year 1790, bringing a family of eight children--seven sons and one daughter. Upon the maternal side, Mr. Allen's grandparents, Amos Lee and Anna Camp, came to Oneida county from Hartford, Conn, in 1791, with a family of seven children--three sons and four daughters. In 1797, Eli Allen, father of the subject of this sketch and son of Gideon and Lettuce Allen, married Sarah Lee, daughter of Amos and Anna Lee. The young couple continued to reside in Oneida county until the year 1820, when they came West and located in the village of Fredonia, Chautauqua county. Orlando at this time was seventeen years old, and he had preceded his parents to Western New York, having come to Buffalo a year...