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Mix, David Ellicott Evans, was born in Batavia, January 19, 1837.
His father, Ebenezer Mix, was born in New Haven, Conn., December 31,
1789, settled in Batavia in 1809, and soon entered the employ of the
Holland Land Company. He was a man of decided taste for mathematics,
and became one of the best known civil engineers in New York State.
For twenty-one years he filled the office of surrogate of Genesee
County. His son, David E. E. Mix, inherited his father's taste for
mathematics and equaled in every respect, if he did not far excel
him, in mathematical ability. He had been frequently employed by the
State to work upon difficult problems, and his death was a public
loss to Batavia. Mr. Mix married Sarah, daughter of the late Samuel
Pruyn of Albany, N. Y. He left a widow and three sons: Samuel P.,
and Malcolm D. of Colorado, and David E. of Hartford, Conn.; Samuel
P. is the only one now living. Mr. Mix filled many prominent positions
in his town and his death, which occurred January 2, 1893, was a loss
not only to his family, but to all who knew him. Mr. Mix's knowledge
of the topography of Western New York, of lot and township lines and
of everything connected with the surveys of Genesee County was remarkable.
A mass of special learning on these topics "died with him,"
as he had a vast fund of this special information possessed by no
one else.
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
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