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Lanny Nunn?Potter/McKean County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
Visual Storyteller · Yesterday · 01 March 2020

OTH, Niles, NY- 2/26/1010
Friendship farmer was agent on Underground Railroad

by Douglas Roorbach
- Olean Times Herald (OTH)
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Nevertheless, the evidence is strong that former Friendship resident Ethan Lanphear, who died in 1903, was such a man. Just years before his death at the age of 84, Mr. Lanphear wrote his autobiography "Life, Travels and Observations of Eighty Years."
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Mr. Lanphear's parents, Samuel and Hannah Lanphear, moved from Rhode Island to Alfred, NY, when young Ethan was just two years old. He had two brothers and three sistrs all raised by their parents to live upright, moral lives in accordance with the Bible.
Just before he turned 20, Ethan took over the operation of a grist mill that his father had built and five years later he married Lois Greenman, a local schoolteacher.
In 1844 the couple moved to Nile, at the time a enclave of Seventh Day Baptists two miles south of Friendship. At his doctor's urging, Mr. Lanphear quit the mill and became a farmer, a trade at which he was quite successful for at least two decades.

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Wayne C White
Upstate NY, not far from the Pennsylvania line, and final leg on the way to Canada.
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