Biography of George M. Bumstead
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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Bumstead, George M., was born in Youngstown, Ohio, March 23, 1853, a son of Caleb M. and Ann Eliza (Hatch) Bumstead.
Caleb M. was an architect and builder. He worked in New York city and spent his last days in Youngstown, where
he died in 1854 and his wife in 1888. George M. was reared in New York city and there educated. He learned the
printer's trade and worked at his trade for a while in New York city and in 1874 came to Greenfleld, where he has
since lived. In 1887 he bought the farm he now owns of eighty acres and makes a specialty of poultry raising and
also fine butter. He is a Republican in politics and for twelve years carried the mail from North Greenfield to
King's Station. September 27, 1877, he married Estella Cady, born September 27, 1860, and they have four children:
Roscoe M., Florence E., Arthur I. and Raymond S. The family are members of the Baptist church at Greenfield Center.
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