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JESSE HALBERT was born on a farm near Lake, Orange County, August 20, 1842. He and a brother, Albert Ruggles,
are the only two living of the six children of Ezra and Phila Ann Halbert. His mother died in 1844 and his father
in 1873. Jesse acquired his education at the district school, after which he followed agricultural pursuits and
has remained a farmer. He has a dairy farm of two hundred and sixteen acres and is a breeder of Holstein cattle.
He married Miss Emily Bates, of Morristown, N. J., May 29, 1878, and their two living children are Ezra, born May
5, 1879, and Clarence, born July 25, 1881. Another son, Alfred, born January 13, 1883, died January 11, 1900. Ezra
and Clarence have three hundred and seventy acres. Ezra is a member of Warwick Grange, a Republican and an energetic
and progressive farmer.
From:
The History of Orange County New York
Edited by: Russel Headley
Van Deusen and Elms, Publishers
Middletown, N. Y. 1908
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