This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goodemote, Vosburgh, Searle, Mills, Golden Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1791 Message Board Post: SOURCE: History of the Original Town of Concord being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins and Sardinia, Erie County, New York By Erasmus Briggs Picton Press, Camden, Maine (originally printed Rochester, NY, 1883) Every Name Index by June Partridge Zintz, June 1992 Allen Goodemote Allen GOODEMOTE was born in Ashford, Cattaraugus county, Feb. 12, 1831. His father’s name was David GOODEMOTE, and his mother’s maiden name was Caroline VOSBURGH; his grandfather came from Columbia county, N.Y.; his father died in Ashford in 1833; his mother married J.G. SEARLE and went to Illinois in 1844. In 1850 he went across the plains to California, and returned in 1862; went back in the Fall of 1863 and came home in the Fall of 1864; he built the first mill in Nevada for crushing the quartz of the Comstock lode; he built a steamboat at LaCrosse, Wis., on the Mississippi, in 1865, and commanded it for a while, and then sold it and removed to this place. In the Fall of 1865 he came to Springville and bought the farm of W.P. MILLS, lying south of the village and moved on to it in July, 1866; in June, 1879, he went to the mining regions of Colorado; returned in January 1880. Was married June 10, 1866, to Miss Aurelia I. GOLDEN, of Hancock county, Ill. ! Their children are Jessie, Lysander C., Gracie and Cora (twins), and Greely R.