William Clark Coon

• General Notes
  • William C. worked at miller's trade. He was the owner and operator of the Burdett Flour and Grist Mill.
    William was born in a frame house about two miles s.w. of Reynoldsville, town of Hector, July 16,1825 on a farm which was in the possession of Chas. W. Davis. At the age of 17 he bled at the lungs with tuberculosis but lived to the 12th of May, 1882, almost 40 years later. He bought the grist mill of Elis Baker at Burdette and operated it from 1851 until his death in 1882. Across the mill stream was the William Coon home,a pleasant aode set in a yard where flowers,shrubbery and trees evidenced a keen appreciation of the beauties of nature. A paling fence secluded the yard from the street, and a latticed summer house, with terraces and flowers, adorned the stream bank adjoining.
    He was sole trustee of the North school district, at the brick school house, Burdette. He was many times elected supervisor of the town of Hector, and three times a member of the N.Y.Assembly-- first as an American(Know nothing) in 1856 and twice as a democrat (1869 and 1870) in every case by the minority party to every election. He served in the N.Y. State Constitutional Convention of 1871.

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¹ {William Clark, Burdett Pres Cem Records}

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