Horatio Seymour Birdseye

From the 1850 federal census, Horatio Birdseye lived with his mother, father, and sisters at Pompey, Onondaga County, New York. The family at the time consisted of:

• Head Victory Birdseye 67
• Wife Electa Birdseye 56
• Daughter Emma Birdseye 30
• Daughter Charlotte Birdseye 19
• Son Horatio Birdseye 17
• Daughter Julia Birdseye 13
• Daughter Eunice Birdseye 11

Obituary for Horatio Birdseye, from The Syracuse Herald: Tuesday Evening, October 22, 1907, pg. 3:

Cortland, Oct. 22 - The funeral of Horatio S. Birdseye, father of John C. Birdseye, clerk of the State Civil Service commission, will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from No. 25 North Pendleton street. He was a native of Pompey, but had made his home for several years with Peter VanOrder, near McLean, where he died on Sunday.

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