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EDWIN F. LAKE, an intelligent and energetic farmer, was born upon the farm on which he now lives in Charlotte Centre, Chautauqua county, New York, on August 20, 1836, and is a son of Daniel B. and Elvira B. (Boynton) Lake. His parents were both residents and natives of Rockingham, Vermont, the former being born in the year 1802. Daniel B. Lake was a New England farmer, but at the age of twenty-eight he removed to Chautauqua county, New York, took up a farm from the Holland Land company, improved it and lived upon it for some thirty years subsequent. He then retired from the farm and took up his residence at Charlotte Centre, where he died at an advanced ago. He was a man who took pride in military affairs, and after his arrival in the State of New York, was captain of a company of militia. His wife died at the age of eighty-three years. Grandfather Henry Lake was also a native of Rockingham, Vermont, and was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, which he entered at the age of sixteen.

Edwin F. Lake was reared and educated in the town of Charlotte, attended the common schools, supplementing his elementary education at the Fredonia academy and at Cleveland, Ohio, commercial college. At the age of sixteen he began teaching school and alternated his time for several years by teaching school in the winter and working on the farm in the summer. At the age of twenty-one he purchased the old homestead upon which he has since resided, and is now engaged in its operation, besides manufacturing butter, cheese and maple sugar. Mr. Lake is also the owner of a large bearing orchard, from which he has realized considerable profit. He is a democrat in politics and has held the office of supervisor two years, assessor eight years and commissioner of highways three years. In the line of fraternal organizations, he belongs to the Grange only, and is master of the branch at Charlotte.

On February 7, 1859, E. F. Lake was married to Mary B. Brooks, a daughter of the late John Brooks of the town of Charlotte. Their children are Daniel F., Addie M. and George E.