BIOGRAPHY

STERLING HOTCHKISS - OF BERGEN AND ALABAMA, NY

Sterling Hotchkiss, son of Moses and Lucy (Griswold) Hotchkiss, was born in Connecticut, 1803, and at the age of 14 came to Bergen and worked out among the farmers. He married, April 27, 1826, Anna, daughter of Aaron and Polly (Allen) Jacobs, of Bergen, and located in Alabama in 1829. He built a log house, where most of their children were born. They were parents of six children: Charlotte E., who married William Ingalsbe and died 1874; Charles, born 1829, who died young; Riley, born 1831, who died in Michigan, 1873; Rialto, born 1832, who died young; Almira M., born August 18, 1835, who married William Duers and had a daughter, Victoria E., who married Charles Anthony, and they have a son, Glenn; and Ann E., born January 14, 1847, who married Chester Hitchcock, and had a daughter, Ann E., who married Arthur J. Anthony in 1876, and had two children, Zeila Ann and Alson S. Mrs. S. Hotchkiss resides on road 40.

Source: Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890