BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

OF

  HORATIO NELSON HAND

From The History of Columbia County

By Capt. Franklin Ellis

1878

 Pages 315 &316.

     Horatio Nelson Hand was born in New Lebanon, Columbia Co., N. Y., Dec. 22, 1807.  He was a son of Samuel and Chloe (Waddams) Hand, early residents of the country, who settled first at Hancock, Mass. and then at Lebanon Springs, N. Y.

     Horatio was brought up on his father's farm till twenty-one years of age, when he served an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, which occupation he followed about five years.  He married Hannah E. Gardner, April 25, 1833, daughter of Benjamin and Didemma Gardner, of Rensselaer Co., N. Y.  The fruit of this union was five children,---three sons and two daughters, ---all living at this writing, viz."  Louisa, now Mrs. Ebenezer Smith Strait, of Troy, N. Y.; Cornelia, now Mrs. Charles B. Campbell, farmer, of New Lebanon; Samuel, married Cornelia Elliott, farmer, residing at Malden, Columbia Co., N. Y.; Horatio Benjamin, married Mary Jane Waterbury, and resides on the old homestead in New Lebanon; Albert, married Mary E. Dickerman, of Spencertown, and is a farmer, residing in North Chatham.