Person:Benjamin Hoxie (2)

Benjamin B. Hoxie, was born in Greenfield in 1809. He afterward removed to Charlemont, where his youth was spent. At the age of eighteen years he came to the farm that would become the Hoxie farm. Here he learned the taner's business of Nathaniel Edwards,third. About 1834 he went to that part of New York State on which the city of Buffalo has since arisen, then covered with timber, and spent the succeeding two years in the woods there. At the end of that time he returned to Northampton, and , with the exception of a brief visit to California, there spent the remainder of his life. He engaged in the tanning business in partnership with his brother-in-law, Horace Wright, and also carried on his farm, which contained between four and five hundred acres of land.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910. (New England Historic and Genealogical Society)
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   b. Greenfield, Ms, s/o Jas. W., b. Newport, R.I. & Mercy T., b. Gill