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FRED W. CASE is a young man of excellent business tact and ability, and stands second to none in the estimation and respect of the community as a man of honor. He was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, July 6, 1857, and is a son of J. W. and Emily (Hubbard) Case. His grandfather, William Case, was born near Providence, Rhode Island, in 1793, and was a farmer, owning a large tract of land at one time. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and was granted a pension for his services. About 1840 he came to Cattaraugus county, this State, and bought a farm near Randolph, which he improved. In religion he was a member of the Baptist church in Little Valley, in the above-named county. Politically he was a whig, and then a republican. William Case was married in 1814 to Sophia Arnold, a most estimable lady, by whom he had eleven children, eight sons and three daughters: Isaac, Job, Henry, Charles, J. Worden (father), John, Sidney and Martin, Martha, who married a Mr. Milks; Rhoda, and Nancy, who married Mr. Chesbrough. William died in 1880, after living with his wife, who still survives, for sixty-five years. The maternal grandfather of F. W. Case was Manley Hubbard, a farmer and owner of fifty acres of highly cultivated land near Leon, Cattaraugus county, this State. In religious matters he was an active member of the Baptist church at Leon, and did all in his power through life to aid the church. Politically he was a republican. Manley Hubbard married Jemima Milks, a lady loved by all, and she bore him six children, two sons and four daughters: Emily (mother); Mary (step-mother); Susan, who married Mr. Hunton; Almina, married to Mr. Earl; Marvin and William. Manley Hubbard died in 1882, and is buried at Leon. This was a happy couple, beloved by all who knew them. J. Worden Case was born July 23, 1823, and was a farmer all his life. Left without a dollar’s worth of property, he was dependent entirely on his own exertions and energy. He succeeded in buying two hundred acres of land in Napoli, Cattaraugus county, then by hard work he accumulated sufficient means to purchase four hundred acres more, about half a mile distant from his first-bought farm. In 1865 he sold one hundred acres from this four hundred acre farm, and in 1868 two hundred acres more, leaving him still three hundred acres in all. He was one of the largest land-holders in that section, and one of the most influential citizens. In 1870 he came to Fredonia for the purpose of educating his children, and bought a house and seven acres of land, but died August 9th of that year. In religion he was a Baptist, and a member of the church of that denomination in Fredonia. Politically, he was an active worker in the Republican party. J. Worden Case married Emily Hubbard, and by her had three children, two sons and one daughter: the eldest, Frank, died in infancy; Eva married George W. Wright, of the Dunkirk Seed company; and F. W. Mrs. Case died August 5, 1857, after which F. Worden Case married Mary Hubbard, a sister of his first wife. After his death she married, in 1872, Albert H. Wheelock, a farmer near Fredonia. Mrs. Wheelock died June, 1885.

F. W. Case was educated at the public schools in Cattaraugus county, and when his father removed to Fredonia he entered the Normal school here, which he attended five terms, but did not graduate. He worked on a farm until he came to Fredonia, and after leaving the Normal school he went to Dunkirk and sold groceries for Henry Negus for a year, then returned to Fredonia, December 14, 1874, and sold hardware for D. L. Shepard for seven years. March 1, 1882, he associated with himself J. M. Zahn, and engaged in the hardware business, in which they continued eleven months, when they bought out Mr. Shepard’s stock, and have since carried on the business under the firm name of Case & Zahn. They have the largest hardware store in town, carrying fifteen thousand dollars worth of stock, and their yearly transactions amount to forty thousand dollars, besides which they have a large patronage in tin-roofing, water-conductors, etc. In religion Mr. Case is a member of the Presbyterian church in Fredonia, and an active worker. Politically he is an active republican, having been elected town clerk several years, and is still holding that office.

F. W. Case was married May 10, 1876, to Lucy F. Pettit, a daughter of M. S. Pettit, an engraver at Fredonia, and by her had one son, Jesse M., born February 6, 1877. She died May 31, 1877, and September 1, 1880, Mr. Case married Ida Smith, a daughter of P. L. Smith, a carpenter of Fredonia, and has had one daughter, Eva Louine, born June 25, 1883. Both the son and daughter are bright and attractive children.