Person:Walter Strickland (10)

Walter H. STRICKLAND was born in Watertown, Conn., Feb. 4, 1816. His grandfather, Samuel STRICKLAND, was an officer in the American army during the Revolutionary war, and was born in 1744 and died in 1826. His father, John STRICKLAND, was born July 25, 1783, and died Oct. 19, 1841. In 1828 he moved from Connecticut to Oneonta, N. Y., and in 1832 came to Otto, settling on fifty acres of land now included in the farm of W. H. STRICKLAND. He had five daughters and two sons. Since the death of his father Walter H. has continued in possession of the original farm and has added to it till the place now includes 350 acres. Mr. STRICKLAND had an academic education and at the age of nineteen he commenced teaching school, which he followed fifteen years, holding a life certificate, but on account of lung difficulty was obliged to relinquish teaching and give his attention to farming. In 1836 he was one of the first members of the M. E. church in the village and is now the only one of that little band living. Mr. STRICKLAND married, first, Statira, daughter of Hon. Dan ALLEN, of Gowanda, July 13, 1843. She died Dec. 16, 1852. By this marriage he had two sons and one daughter, of whom the oldest son, John, and daughter, Mrs. Laura SMITH, are still living; the other son, Dan A., died in May, 1882. In Jan., 1854, he married Mrs. Maryette B. HUNT; they have one son, Channing W., and two daughters deceased.

TOWN OF OTTO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FROM: "HISTORICAL GAZETTEER AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, ed by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published 1893