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ALBERT H. STEBBINS, a descendant of one of the old pioneer families of the town of Hanover and Chautauqua county, is a son of Marcus M. and Emeline (More) Stebbins, and was born in the town of Sheridan, Chautauqua county, New York, May 15th, 1842. His paternal grandfather, Sesediah Stebbins, was a native of Massachusetts and came in 1806 to what is now the town of Sheridan, where he purchased a farm of two hundred acres. He was an enterprising and successful farmer and in politics was successively a whig and republican. He married Iseneth Green, by whom he had one son and three daughters. The son, Marcus M. Stebbins, was the father of the subject of this sketch. Marcus M. Stebbins was born in 1819, owned one hundred and fifty acres of his father’s farm, which he cultivated and managed until his death in 1886. He was a whig and republican in politics and married Emeline More, a daughter of Huber More, a native of Essex and afterwards a resident of Chautauqua county, They reared a family of six children, two sons and four daughters.

Albert H. Stebbins was reared on the home farm and received his education in the common schools and Randolph academy, which latter he attended one term while that institution of learning was under the charge of Prof S. G. Love. Leaving school, he turned his attention to farming which he has successfully followed until the present time. He owns a farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres of good grape land, of which thirty-two acres are now in productive vineyards. His land is also well adapted to grain raising and grazing purposes. Mr. Stebbins is a republican, who believes in yielding an active support to his party. He held the office of assessor of the town of Hanover for nine consecutive years and shortly afterwards was elected as supervisor, which office he held uninterruptedly since 1884. He is a member of Lodge No. 757 Free and Accepted Masons of Silver Creek.

In 1863 he married Clara E. Smith, who is a daughter of William Smith, and died May 9th, 1883, leaving five children: Fannie (deceased); Lorain W., a farmer of Hanover, who married Grace Birdsey; Schuyler C.; H. Smith, attending Exeter academy; and Mary L. In 1886 Mr. Stebbins united in marriage with Nina C. Congdon, daughter of Morgan Congdon. By his second marriage he has one child, a daughter — Clara A.