Biography of Alvin Bidwell
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SARATOGIAN
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899
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Bidwell, Alvin, was born in the town of Pinkney, Jefferson county, September 27, 1820, a son of Reuben and Sarah
(Hart) Bidwell, Sarah daughter of Jeremiah Hart Reuben was a son of David Bidweli, who came from Holland and settled
in the southern part of the town of Stiliwater. He was very patriotic during the war and was very nearly taken
prisoner by the Tories who tried to enter his house, but with the aid of his dog and his gun he defended his house
against them. He was also a very public spirited man and an active worker in the Presbyterian church of the town
of Malta. Alvin Bidwell was educated in the common schools of the town of Stillwater, and Jones Academy. He lived
with his father, assisting on the farm until he was twenty-two years of age, when he leased the farm of his father
and-started in life for himself. Six years later he purchased the farm from his father and has followed farming
up to the present time. In early life he was active in town and county affairs and all public spirited enterprises.
He married Helen, daughter of David Flagler, and they had two children: Harriet Aurelia (deceased) and Belle, wife
of W. H. Allen of Mechanicville. Mrs. Bid well died and for his second wife he married Ruth S. Garrison, a daughter
of Henry Ferris.
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