Eli Felt

• Son of Asa Felt and Elizabeth "Betsey" Richards
• Married Olive Walcott on April 13, 1842 in Smyrna, Chenango, New York
• Children : Joshua Pitt, Ida Adelaide, Bessie Sarissa, Lulu Olive Dewitt, Eli Walcott and Charles Henry Felt
• Occupation: lumberman and builder of houses, stores and hotels
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86382963/eli-felt

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Eli Felt was a native of Smyrna, Chenango Co., N.Y., born April 3, 1819 and on April 13, 1842, he was married in that town to Olive Talcott, a lady of English descent. The children born to this union were as follows: Joshua Pitt (the subject proper of this sketch), DeWitt (born June 2, 1847), Ida Adelaide (born June 23, 1850), Bessie Sarissa (born July 3, 1852), Olive Julia, born February 16, 1854), Eli Talcott (born June 8, 1856) and Charles Henry (born November 8, 1860). After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Felt live one year in Smyrna, and then moved to Big Flats, Chemung Co., N.Y., where he carried on a lumber business, thence moving after a five years' residence to Dansville, Livingston Co., N.Y., and from there after a sojourn of one year to Shippen, now Emporium, where he engaged very extensively in the lumber business as narrated above. Here Mr. Felt built several houses, a large block of stores and the first hotel in the place, known as the "Emporium House." In 1861 he removed to Philadelphia in 1870 to Warrenton, N.C. and in 1880 to Raleigh, same state where he departed this life, February 5, 1885.
[Source: History of the counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania, Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1890, Page 930 - Transcribed by FOFG NP]

• United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4C9-HFQ : 22 December 2020), Eli Felt, Shippen Township, McKean, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

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• Census: 1860 - Shippen, Mckean, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Apr 10 2023, 22:15:44 UTC