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CORNELIUS W. MYRICK is a son of Nehemiah and Abba D. (Reed) Myrick, and was born May 31st, 1846, in Chautauqua, Chautauqua county, N. Y. His grandfather was John Myrick, who was a native of Putnam county, N. Y., where he was a life-long resident and a farmer by occupation. John Myrick married Hannah Merritt, by whom he had six children, three sons and three daughters. The maternal great-grandfather of C. W. Myrick was John Reed, who was a native of Middlesex county, Connecticut, where he spent his entire life, being by occupation a farmer and blacksmith. He married Abbie Whitney and by her had four children, three sons and a daughter. One of the sons was Moses Whitney Reed (maternal grandfather of C. W. Myrick), a native also of Middlesex county, where he ended his days. He studied for the ministry, but was compelled to abandon the idea of preaching on account of ill health and turned to teaching school for a few years. In his religious views he was a Presbyterian, being a member of the church of that denomination. Moses Whitney Reed married Polly Middlebrook and they had one child, a daughter. His wife dying, he married for his second choice Hannah Haight, whose father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and by her he had two children, both daughters: Miriam, married to William Dougherty, who is in business in New York; and Abba D. The mother of these two children died November 17th, 1886, aged ninety-three years. Nehemiah Myrick was born in Putnam, New York, September 3d, 1806, and for a few years was engaged in the river business on the Hudson, coming to this county in May, 1838, and settling in Sherman, where he died August 6th, 1876. He entered the mercantile business in Sherman, but for several years followed farming in the town of Chautauqua. Politically he was a republican, and firm in his convictions. Nehemiah Myrick was married October 24th, 1831, to Abba D. Reed, a daughter of Moses Whitney Reed, and a native of Connecticut, where she was born January 16th, 1814, this union being blessed with four children, three sons and a daughter: Sylvanus H., who was born June 5th, 1833, married Mary L. Hawley, and lives on the old homestead in Chautauqua, where he cultivates the farm; he served in the 112th regiment New York Volunteers a few months during the late civil war; Elmore, born March 10th, 1836, married to Martha Button, and lives in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, where he is a retired merchant; Marion E., born December 9th, 1840; and Cornelius W.

Cornelius W. Myrick was educated in the common schools of this county, and began his business life as a hardware merchant in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained five years, and then came to Sherman and continued in the same business an equal length of time. He is now engaged in farming, owning two large farms. Politically he is a republican. Cornelins W. Myrick is married to Mary P. Vincent, a daughter of James Vincent of Sherman, by whom he has one son, Preston R.