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Willey, Albert L., was horn in Freeville, January 18, 1855. His father, Samuel B. Willey, settled where he now
lives in 1825, coming from Ulster county to the town of Dryden, and has always been prominently identified in advancing
the interests of his town, and for many years was interested in various business enterprises of the village. He
built the first store, and for two years carried the mail from Etna to Freeville, gratis, and assisted in establishing
the first post office in his grist mill. Our subject was educated in the common schools and finished at the Dryden
Academy under Jackson Graves. In 1874 he bought the Freeville mill property, which he sold in 1876 to Elias Gibbs.
At the age of twenty he married Helen E., daughter of Richard Head, of Lansing, and they are the parents of three
sons: Horace N., F. Ray, and Clarence A. Our subject is one of the most active business men of his town, taking
an active interest in advancing its best interests and in educational and religious matters, being a member of
the M. E. Church of Freeville, which his father assisted in building, and which was the first church built in the
village in the year 1848.
From:
Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York
Including a History of Cornell University
Edited by: John H. Selkreg
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1894
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