Person:David Fargo (1)

From History of the Town of Warsaw, New York

... for many years he resided on his farm about 1 1/2 miles north of the village... the last years of his life were spent in the village, having retired from business.

[His and Phebe's son] Benjamin F. Fargo served in the Civil War in the 17th Regiment of the New York Volunteers under the command of Col. Lansing of Albany.

From Biographical Review of Livingston and Wyoming Counties, NY - article regarding Benjamin F. Fargo

... His son David, the father of Benjamin F., was a native of Montville, Conn., in which town he was born October 31, 1786. He was married twice. His first wife, Miss Bethia Day, to whom he was married on September 9, 1810, lived only four years thereafter. She was a daughter of Elkanah Day, who came to Warsaw from Attleboro, VT., in 1806, and bore her husband two children, a son who died at three years of age and a daughter, Polly, who became the wife of Mr. Chauncey Kimball, and died at Baraboo, Wis., in 1890. The second wife, Mrs. David Fargo, was Phoebe Mason. Mr. Fargo was a farmer at what was then known as the Four Corners, in the town of Warsaw. Here most of his life was spent, and here were born his ten children, of whom six sons and two daughters reached maturity. They were:

David Mason Fargo, who died in Kansas in 1890, leaving a family; Benjamin F., whose name heads this memoir; Darius C., a resident of Santa Cruz, Cal., who is noted for his natural mechanical talent; Myron L., a farmer of Attica; Francis F., who died in Buffalo in 1890, aged sixty-eight; Adeline, the widow of Alonz Choate, of Connecticut; Harrison, who served three years in the late Civil War, and died at Olean, N.Y., at fifty-six years of age; and Harriet, the widow of Charles L. Seaver, residing in Connecticut.

Mrs. Phoebe Fargo died January 21, 1850, aged fifty-eight. Her husband survived her five years, dying May 16, 1855, at sixty-nine years of age. Mr. Fargo was noted for his strong religious faith, his pious and conscientious life, and his remarkable knowledge of the Scriptures. He was many years an official in the Baptist church of his town. He was not lacking in practical capacity, and left an estate of fifteen thousand dollars to be divided among his heirs.

Benjamin F. Fargo left the district school at eighteen, and studied for two terms at the Wyoming Academy, after which he learned the trade of wool-carding and cloth-dressing under his brother-in-law, Mr. Chauncey Kimball. In 1839 he went to Springville, Erie County, where he was employed in the cloth factory owned by E. W. Cook, in which firm he became a partner two years later. He came to Warsaw from Springville in 1849, and engaged in mercantile business with his brother, Francis F. Fargo, under the firm name of F.F. Fargo & Co., which in 1851 was changed to B.F. Fargo & Co., Francis F. Fargo leaving the business, and his father, David, and his uncle, Allen Fargo, entering the firm.

David's will was written in Warsaw Nov. 10, 1851. In it, his children are listed by name and age.

Mary Kimballdaughter39 years old David M. Fargoson36 Benjamin F. Fargoson34 Darius C. Fargoson33 Myron L. Fargoson 29 Francis F. Fargoson 27 Adaline S. Fargodaughter23 William H. H. Fargoson19 Harriet P. Fargodaughter19

1. ↑ Leilani Spring (leilani@@iinc.com). Warsaw Village Pioneer Cemetery. ((c) 1999).
2. ↑ Wyoming County, New York Historian's Office
   Will book Vol. 2, p. 41.
3. ↑ Laura Bristol Robinson, Editor. The Warsaw Centennial 1803-1903. (Warsaw Centennial Association, published by the Western New Yorker, Warsaw, NY).
4. ↑ Biographical Review - This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of the Leading Citizens of Livingston and Wyoming Counties New York. (Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Company 1895)
   p. 162.