Was the son of ____Tower, a seafaring man, who for many years lived in Vt. He m. Lucy, dau. of Samuel Munson, and came to Portland, NY from New Hartford, Oneida county, NY, in Oct. 1818. in common with most settlers who came into town from the east, the family refer to the horrors of the Cattaraugus woods. There had been a heavy fall of snow, which was fast disappearing before the warm rays of an October sun, and the whole swamp was covered with water and slush from two to three feet deep. In passing through it one of the horses lost his footing and went down and out of sight, and was only rescued by the plunging in of Mr. T. and his assistant and unloosening it from its fastenings. He lived in the town of Chautauqua for a year, but returned and bought of John Price a piece of land where Price built his first cabin, on S. E. corner of his farm, p’t of lot 38, T. 5; also five acres of Richard Birge, adjoining, with a log house. He afterward built a frame house and barn and a tannery. [See tanneries] He d. June 29, 1855. Mrs. T. d. Sept/ 2, 1838. Mr. T. made no profession of religious faith; in politics he was a democrat. The family of Mr. and Mrs. T. were all b. in Oneida County, but all living were m. in P. 361