EARLY SETTLERS OF OLEAN, CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY
From: Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus County, ed. by William Adams, 1893.
Pages 855-871
List generated from the text of reminiscences of the late Honorable
James G. Johnson, one of Olean’s pioneers.
1800-1810
BOARDMAN, JEHIEL
BRADLEY (Dr.)
BROOKS, JOHN (removed to Cincinnati)
BROOKS, CORNELIUS
COUDERY, ?
CURTIS, ISRAEL (left by 1825)
FOLLETT, BIBBINS (died in Hinsdale in 1809)
GREEN, JOHN (Known as "Wats John" and was son of James)
GREEN, JAMES (went to Great Valley)
HOOPS, ROBERT (died in 1816 and was brother of Adam)
JOHNSON, JAMES G. (From Canandaigua NY, died in 1811, father of James Jr.)
JOHNSON, JAMES G. Jr.
JOHNSON, MARCUS HAMILTON (son of James Sr.)
LAMBERTON, REUBEN (came from Canandaigua as early as 1816-1817)
PORTER, TIMOTHY (first Judge)
RICE, LUMAN
RUSSELL, SYLVANUS (from Angelica NY, married Ester Van Wickle in 1805)
SHEPARD, OLEAN (b. 1807, first female white child born in County, dau of William)
SHEPARD, WILLIAM (died 1809)
SMEAD, ?
STRONG, JEDEDIAH (died abt 1823)
THRALL, WILLIS (died 1823-24, son of Pardon Thrall, brother of Erastus Thrall)
WEBB, HOYT
WOOD, WALTER
1810-1820
AIKEN, D.D.
ALLEN, ANDREW (became a Mormon and moved to Kirtland, Ohio)
ATKINS, JAMES
BARROWS, SAMUEL
BENNETT (Dr.)
BOARDMAN, JOHN (died in Randolph)
BOCKES, DAVID
BRUNSON, SAMUEL
BRUNSON, JAMES
BRYAN, JOHN A.
CANFIELD, M.B.
CARPENTER, ANNA (mother of ? , who married ? McIntosh)
DOWNING, JACOB
EGGLESTON, ISAAC
FREEMAN, MARTIN
GOODSPEED, LUKE (Col.)
GREGORY, LEVI (opened first store in 1811)
HINDS, ROBERT
HUNTLEY, DAVID N.
JONES, DAVID
KINGSBURY, HENRY L.
KNAPP, JAMES
LOCKWOOD, ODEL (had a brother named Joseph Odel)
LOCKWOOD, EBENEZER (Sheriff in 1822)
MARTIN, F.S.
MILLER, HENRY (moved to Angelica)
MORRELL, MARTIN
NORTHRUP, ANDREW
OOSTERHOUDT, ZACHARIAH (father of Samuel Ooseterhoudt)
ORTON, AMOS (became a Mormon and moved to Kirtland, Ohio)
ORTON, DAVID (became a Mormon and moved to Kirtland, Ohio)
ORTON, HORATIO
OSBORN, H.L.
PORTER, TIMOTHY
REED, EBENEZER
SEELEY, NATHANIEL
SEELEY, BENJAMIN
SMITH, NORMAN (Dr.)
STILWELL, WILLIAM
STRONG, JAMES
TAYLOR, CYRUS (son of John, went west)
TAYLOR, SARAH ANN(dau of John, widow of ? WRIGHT)
TAYLOR, TRACY (son of John)
TAYLOR, LEMUEL (son of John)
TAYLOR, JOHN B. (Came in 1817 from RI, father of Lemuel, Tracy, Cyrus, Ruth, Sarah Ann)
TAYLOR, RUTH (1st wife of Deacon Aaron J. Allen)
THRALL, ERASTUS (son of Pardon, went to Michigan abt 1840-1850))
THRALL, PARDON (father of Erastus & Willis)
TRACY, JOSIAH
VIBBARD, CHESTER
WARNER, G.W.
WILMARTH, BAXTER
WOOD, HIRAM
1820-1830
ADKINS, JAMES (went to Cincinnati)
BAGLEY, WILLIAM (went to Ohio)
BARROWS, SAMUEL
BARTLETT, RANSOM (married a dau of John Conrad)
BLACK, PAUL
BOUTON, SEYMOUR (father of Seymour Bouton, Jr. of Allegany)
BRONSON, JAMES (went "west" in 1823, married ? Thrall, daughter of Pardon Thrall)
CLARK, JAMES R. (Brother of Sanford and Barak)
CLARK, SANFORD (brother of James and Barak, never married)
CLARK, BARAK (brother of Sanford and James)
FOBES, JOHN (father of Milton B. And George)
FOBES, GEORGE (son of John)
FOBES, MILTON B. (Son of John)
HEPBURN, JAMES
HINDS, ROBERT (went to the "great northwest")
JONES, HOMER (son of Benjamin)
JONES, EBENEZER (brother of Benjamin)
JONES, BENJAMIN (father of Homer Jones)
McCLUER, PENUEL
McCLUER, H.W.
McCLUER, KIBBEE (married Emily Boardman, sister of O. P. Boardman)
McCLUER, SAMUEL
MORRILL, MASTEN
NORTON, ANDREW A.
ORTON, HORATIO (postmaster for a few years)
RICE, LUMAN (brother of Allen, Justus, George)
RICE, JUSTUS (brother of Allen, Luman, George)
RICE, GEORGE (brother of Allen, Luman, Justus)
RICE, ALLEN (brother of Luman, Justus, George)
SIMMONS, SETH (father of Ephraim)
SIMMONS, EPHRAIM
STILWELL, WILLIAM (moved to Franklinville)
STONE, ? (Rev., organized first church, came in 1822)
THRALL, ? (married James Bronson)
TRACY, JOSIAH
VAN DUSEN, JOSHUA
WARNER, DENNIS
WARREN, AHIJAH C. (Father of Seth W. Warren)
WEEKS, JOSHUA (left soon after arriving)
WEYMOUTH, DANIEL
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