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Erie County History
Also see [ Railway Officials in America 1906
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Van Name, John W., Hamburg, was born in Herkimer county. N, Y., August 20, 1819. His parents came to the western
part of the town of Hamburg when he was six months old. He was educated in the schools of that day, and was a farmer
until he retired in 1871, when he came to the village of Hamburg to reside. December 25, 1842, he married Lodema
E. Partridge, of Hume, Allegany county, N. Y., and they had nine children; all are dead except Alonzo A. and Kate
L. Mrs. Van Name died June 13, 1895, mourned by a bereaved husband and children. Mr. Van Name's father, Aaron,
was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., in April, 1791. He moved to Herkimer county when a young man and married Margaret
Shawl; they had three children. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and died in 1867; his wife in 1841.
Source:
Our County and it's people
a descriptive work on Erie County, New York
Edited by: Trumen C. White
The Boston History Company, Publishes 1898
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