BIOGRAPHY

DANIEL W. MATTESON - OF PAVILION, NY

Daniel W. Matteson, a native of Vermont. came to Perry in 1813, at the age of 17, and engaged in farming. He married, first, Hannah Waldo, of Vermont, and second, Sarah T., daughter of Levi and Lorinda (Church) McWethy, also of Vermont, who came here in 1809, and purchased 160 acres one mile southeast of Pavilion, where he resided until his death in 1812 Mr. Matteson's children were Lyman C., Mary, Harrison, L. Van Rensselaer, Sanders, Sarah, and Jane. The family were Baptists. He served in the War of 1812. In those days they went to mill at Perry, and sold their wheat in Rochester. They came from Onondaga County, where he lived one year, with an ox-team.

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