This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MAXON, FREEMAN, KELSEY Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RRB.2ACE/6211 Message Board Post: **Courtesy Posting only - the contributor is not connected to this family** OLEAN EVENING HERALD SATURDAY EVENING, JAN 14, 1922 ENOCH MAXSON BECOMES 100 YEARS OLD TOMORROW Olean Will Have a Centenarian Aged Southside Awaken Sunday, January 15 (1922) Before tomorrow is past Olean will have a centenarian, unless the unexpected should happen and the aged person pass away. He is Enoch MAXSON living at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. JAMES KELSEY at 120 Riverside Avenue. He confidently expects to pass his 100th milestone sometime Sunday, January 15, and inasmuch as he is about the house and eating three squares a day, his expectations are more than reasonable. Mr. Maxon's daughter is Mrs. ADA FREEMAN, who also resides at the Kelsey residence. Enoch Maxson was born January 15, 1822 in the state of Rhode Island and moved with his parents when he was 9 years old to Main Settlement about three miles east of Portville. When he arrived at manhood he became a riverman employed in those early days of lumbering in rafting on the Allegany River. Later and for many years he engaged in farming. His wife died some ten or twelve years ago and since that time he has lived in Olean. Maxson appears to be in remarkably good health considering his age and takes an especial delight in talking of his early experiences when this country was most of it a virgin forest.