Person:Benjamin Wiltsie (1)

•Wiltse, Frederick, was born in Hannibal in 1827 on the farm he now owns of 130 acres. He was a son of Cornelius Wiltse who was a native of Duanesburg, but settled on this farm in 1815. He and his family lived in his wagon while he built his house. He came through the woods from Hannibal village to his farm, there being no road cut at that time. He was a son of Henry Wiltse, who with his brother Benjamin, took up 640 acres of the wilderness, and the two brothers cut the first timber and commenced the clearing of their farm. Frederick Wiltse married Emma A. Copland of Hannibal, and they have four children: Mrs. Ella Lund, wife of W. H, Lund; Orville, Sheridan and Floyd. One son, Maurice, died in August, 1865, aged four years. He has held the office of commissioner of highways of this town two years. Cornelius Wiltse died in 1867, aged eighty-three years.