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Darrow, Asa K., p. o. Confu, N. Y., was born at Corfu, February 13, 1826, educated
in the public schools and has had a variety of occupations. He was a machinist; was a forty-niner in California;
oil operator and contractor in the oil regions of Pennsylvania; was a boat owner and captain on the southwestern
rivers; has also been a lumberman, and has business interests in the western States, and is now retired toward
the close of a life's battle well fought. He holds the office of street commis sioner. He has married twice; first,
in 1852, to Amy S. Edwards; they had three children: Guy A., who died at the age of six years; Jennie A., who married
Herbert G. Walker of this place, then of Chicago, and has two children, Ella K., and Herbert G., jr.; and William
A., a resident of the State of Washington and married. Mrs. Darrow died in 1864, and in 1872 Mr. Darrow married
Allie L. King of the township of Pembroke; they had one son, Ralph A., a student at school. Mrs. Darrow died in
January, 1897. Mr. Darrow's father, Luther Darrow, was born at Northampton, Mass., in the year 1794, and came first
to Washington county with his parents and from there to Corfu in 1807. He was educated in the schools of his day
and was always a farmer. He married twice; first, to Hannah Kinne of Rupert, Vt. who died in 1843, leaving seven
children, three of whom survive: Asa K. (as above), Aennette (now Mrs. Turner of Pembroke), and William who, is
a resident of the State of Iowa. For his second wife Mr. Luther Darrow married Mrs. Julia A. (Herrington) Hobert;
they had one daughter, Emeline. Luther Darrow died in 1868. Mr. Darrow's grandfather, Z. Darrow, was a resident
of Massachusetts. Mr. Darrow in his political choice is a Republican.
Source:
Our Countty and it's people
a descriptive work on Genesee County, New York
Edited by: F. W. Beers
J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890
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