Notes for AUSTIN MARINUS ROE:
Son of Captain Austin and Catherine (Jones) Roe.
Born: September 27, 1823 in Brookhaven Township, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Died: March 10, 1914 in Fulton County, New York.
Buried: Collins Cemetery, Wayne County, New York.
Census:
1850 - Rose Wayne County, New York.
1860 - Boonville, Oneida County, New York.
Residence: 1833 - Rose, Wayne County, New York.
Married: Polly Catherine Seelye March 2, 1843 in Unknown.
1860 Census
name: A M Roe
residence: , Oneida, New York
ward: The Town Of Boonville
age: 36 years
estimated birth year: 1824
birthplace: New York
gender: Male
page: 102
family number: 815
film number: 803825
dgs number: 4236761
image number: 00678
nara number: M653
In his early days he acquired as good an education as the public shcools of that time afforded, and in his later teens was a student at Red Creek Academy for a time. He entered theministry of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, and from 1850 until the present time (1907) has been a clergyman in that church. He has been retired from active service for the past twenty years, ahving his home in Fulton, New York. He is a member of the Northern New York, formlery the Black River Conference. As a young man he as a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for James K. Polk, in 1844. He next voted the first Free Soil ticket, and remained faithful to this party until 1856, when he voted for Fremont, and was a firm upholder of the tenets of the Republican party, unitl of late, when he began casting his vote for Prohibition candidates.
(Source: Historic Homes and Institutions...of Worcester County Mass Ellery Bicknell Crane pub 1907)