BIOGRAPHY

ANSON LATHROP - OF DARIEN, NY

Anson Lathrop, son of Samuel and Lucy (Pendleton) Lathrop, was born November 23, 1803, in Bozrah, Conn., and removed to Darien with his parents in 1819. His father was a mechanic and farmer. Mr. La. thorp remained with his parents until he was 21. He settled on the farm where he now resides a year or two before his marriage, and has always been a farmer. In June, 1834, he married Elizabeth Bertram, whose father was a sea captain. She died February 24, 1880. Their children were Samuel, born March 28, 1835, who enlisted in the war, was taken prisoner at Knoxville, and died of starvation in a rebel prison in North Carolina; Henry, born February 15, 1837, who also enlisted in the army in Pennsylvania, and participated in the battles of Gettysburg and the Wilderness, in the latter of which he received a wound in his left lung, and died at Fredericksburg 13 days after; Burr B., born June 3, 1843, who was drafted at the age of 18, entered a company from the town of Mexico, Oswego County, and died in the service, but how or just when we cannot now ascertain; Edmund P. G., born March 28, 1847, a farmer, who died on the homestead at the age of 17; Janette M., born August 24, 1840, who married Richard Bowen, a farmer, and resides near her father; Caroline C., born November 15, 1841, who married A. McCall Stickney and resides at Fargo station; Charles, born November 1, 1849, who died October 2, 1886; and George W., born January 28, 1851, who died September 20, 1852.

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