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EZRA F. PABODY, now a retired farmer, living in the village of Ripley, Chautauqua county, New York, but formerly an active agriculturist living in the town of that same name, is a son of Stephen and Mary (Gay) Pabody, and was born at New Lebanon, New York, November 19, 1818. The paternal grandfather was a native and resident of New England, where he was engaged in mercantile life. He descended from a Scotch emigrant, but as he died when his son (subject’s father) was a small infant, but little can be given about him or his people. The maternal grandfather was Henry Gay. Stephen Pabody was born in the east, but when young moved to and lived in Monroe county, New York. He followed a variety of mechanical employments, and finally, about 1833, went to North East, Penna., where he died in 1858. He was a democrat. Stephen Pabody married Mary Gay, and reared a family of two sons and three daughters: Ezra F., Ann M., died in Buffalo; Jeannette, married A. W. Butts, and lives at North East, Penna.; George is farming at the same place; and Delphius lives in Nebraska.

Ezra F. Pabody followed the movements of his father until grown to manhood, and then married Almira Dixon, a daughter of John Dixon, and by her had three children: Stephen A., born August 16, 1845, married Martha Parks and now lives as a farmer in the town of Ripley; John D. was born October 6, 1847, and now lives with his wife, Aggie Davis Pabody, at North East, Penna.; Radolphus D., born August 24, 1849, is in the employ of the B. & O. R. R., and lives at Huntington, West Virginia. After the death of his first wife, Ezra F. Pabody married Clara M. Downer, a daughter of Seneca Downer, of Oneida county, New York.

Ezra F. Pabody received the limited education given to boys of that day, the aggregate amount tendered him not exceeding a term of the present day. He worked with his father in the shop until reaching manhood, and then opened a chair-shop at North East, which he conducted for two years, and then sold it, purchasing with the proceeds a farm of one hundred and eleven acres, near the village of Ripley, where his son now lives. Mr. Pabody made his home upon that property for thirty-five years, and in 1876 he bought a home in Ripley village, where he has since lived in quiet. Politically he is a democrat, but in local matters he is entirely independent, and has held the office of assessor for three years.