BIOGRAPHY

AUSTIN T. MINER - OF GENESEE COUNTY, NY

Miner, Austin T., was born in Berkshire County, Mass., February 9, 1811, and with his parents, Leman and Joanna Tauer Miner, came to Genesee County in 1816, among the pioneer settlers. Leman Miner died in 1836. Austin Miner was educated in the district schools and in Wyoming, after which he taught school for several years. From 1840 to 1850 he was interested in woolen manufacture. In 1857 he married Exana M. Smith, who died in 1840. He afterward married Caroline A., daughter of Ebenezer E. Brown; they have eight children: Lyman B., John A., Otis A., Seward H., Donnelly S., Sherman L., George Elliot, Mrs. Mary J. Rickert and. Mrs. Florence Taverdale.

Source:
Our County and it's people
A descriptive work on Genesee County, New York
Edited by: F. W. Beers
J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890