My Genealogy Hound

DANIEL LEWIS WAGGONER, although for the past decade he has been living on borrowed time beyond the allotted span of man, enjoys a serene, happy and vigorous old age, and well deserves it. He is a son of Calvin and Rebecca (Babcock) Waggoner, and was born in Cayuga county, New York, August 4, 1809. His paternal grandfather, George Waggoner, was born in 1756, was a farmer by occupation, and served as a good soldier in the war of the Revolution, enlisting for a short term and re-enlisting at the expiration of that term. At the close of the war he resumed farming in Cayuga county, whither he moved, and eventually moved to Canada, where he spent the rest of his life, dying in 1827. He married Mary Connor in 1783, and had four sons and four daughters: Margaret, Israel, George, Calvin, Cyrus, Charlotte, Polly and Electa. Calvin Waggoner (father) was born in Cayuga county, this State, in 1785, and was a farmer there until 1810, when he removed to Canada, leased some land and resumed his occupation, continuing as tiller of the soil until his death in 1835. He married Rebecca Babcock in 1808, and she bore him six children, two sons and four daughters: Daniel Lewis; Caroline, who married John Vaughn, a farmer and tanner in Canada; Matilda, who married Rosel Merchant, a farmer in Crawford county, Pennsylvania; Charlotte, who married Michael Baugher, a lumberman in Crawford county, Pennsylvania; Charles A., a farmer in Charlotte, this county, who married Sarah Johnson; and Rebecca, who married John Williams and lives in Canada. The mother of these children died in 1828.

D. L. Waggoner was educated in the comman schools of Canada. No better facilities for an education then being offered him, he was obliged to finish his education at home. He worked on a farm until a young man, when the farm was to be sold for unpaid taxes and rent, it being a leased farm. He borrowed money, paid the debts, cultivated the land a few years and then sold to a Mr. Hall, who came from England and moved to this county in 1832, and bought a tract containing ninety acres of land on the line between Cherry Creek and Ellington, about twelve miles from Jamestown. Subsequently he sold this and bought one hundred and fifty acres farther west, and afterward purchased two hundred more in Cherry Creek, part of which he gave his children. In September, 1889, he moved to Fredonia, bought five acres of land, built himself a nice house and enjoys the fortune he has accumulated. Beside the land given away, he still owns one hundred and sixty acres of land in Ellington village, a lot in Jamestown and a house and lot in Chautauqua. He is a member of the Methodist church and politically is a stanch prohibitionist.

D. L. Waggoner was married August 14, 1831, to Mary Millspaw, a daughter of Jeremiah and Margaret Millspaw, of Canada, and has had by her six children, three sons and three daughters: Calvin M., died young; Daniel Marshall, married to Mira B. Woodward, is retired from business and lives in Fredonia; Jane A., married Ezra Greeley, who is dead, and she lives at Jamestown; George N., married to Victoria Ferguson, is retired from business and lives in Jamestown; Mary M., married to William Hitchcock, a farmer in Cherry Creek; and Emily, married to Perry Slater, a farmer in Ellington.